Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with the Government of (a) Bangladesh and (b) Myanmar to encourage those states to sign the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol.

The UK has not had recent specific discussions with Government of Burma or Government of Bangladesh on the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol. The UK supports the 1951 Convention and has been a signatory since 1951 and the UK acceded to the 1967 Protocol in 1968.