Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps she is taking to support (a) ECOWAS and (b) the African Union in relation to the inclusion of criteria relating to accountability and justice for (i) victims of the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre and (ii) victims of other past violations by state military and security service actors in Guinea, in the process for the lifting of sanctions and the normalisation of relations with Guinea.

The UK Government has repeatedly supported calls for those responsible for the 2009 Conakry stadium massacre to be brought to justice. We maintain sanctions against five individuals accused of involvement in the stadium massacre. We welcome the work of The Global Survivors Fund and its Guinean partners in designing a reparation project to provide survivors with psychological, medical and financial support. We continue to monitor the situation and engage with international and regional partners, including through our Embassy in Conakry.