Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether he has had recent discussions with his regional counterparts on taking steps to help tackle internal repression in Myanmar.

The UK regularly raises the situation in Myanmar with regional counterparts, including at Ministerial and Secretary of State level. We continue to support the regional leadership of ASEAN on the crisis in Myanmar, and welcome the announcement of a new ASEAN Special Envoy to Myanmar. We will work closely with the Envoy, and Indonesia as ASEAN Chair, to support the delivery of the ASEAN Five Point Consensus.

The UK also uses our role as UN Security Council pen-holder to raise awareness on the international stage, and on December 2022, the UN Security Council passed the first ever resolution on the situation in Myanmar, led by the UK, which demands an end to violence and urges immediate action by the military regime to fully implement the ASEAN Five Point Consensus.