Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether (a) he and (b) officials in his Department have (i) met virtually, by phone or in person and (ii) exchanged correspondence with any of the parties, or legal counsel to the parties, of the arbitration proceedings at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea, in each of the last 24 months.
Neither the Foreign Secretary nor any FCDO officials have met with or exchanged correspondence with legal counsel to the parties in relation to the arbitration proceedings at the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), in each of the last 24 months. FCDO officials and Ministers have regularly engaged with their Mauritian and Maldivian counterparts in diplomatic activity.