Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether there are plans to hold a follow-up event after the December 2017 Vancouver Conference of Foreign Ministers on the situation on the Korean peninsula; and if he will make a statement.

The Foreign Secretary joined Foreign Ministers and senior officials from twenty countries at the Vancouver Group meeting on 16 January 2018. The Group endorsed the maximum pressure approach and the goal of achieving the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula.

There are no plans for a follow-up event. The Foreign Secretary continues to engage regularly with his counterparts on the threat posed by North Korea’s illegal pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, including at the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Toronto on 22-23 April and at the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels on 27 April.