Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will take steps to ensure that civil society groups in South Sudan are included in the second round of the High Level Revitalisation Forum taking place in February 2018.

The British Government has repeatedly called for the inclusion of a broad range of actors in the High Level Revitalisation Forum (RVF), including civil society groups. We welcomed the involvement of representatives from South Sudanese civil society in the first round of the RVF in December, and encourage their continued inclusion as the process progresses.

Through our diplomatic engagement, we will continue to make this point at the highest levels, both directly to Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and to all parties to the conflict.