Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the political and security situation in Myanmar.

​The situation in Burma remains of real concern. On 27 August, the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission declared that the conduct of the military in Rakhine in August and September 2017 constituted grounds for the prosecution of members of the Burma military for crimes against humanity and genocide. The Foreign Secretary intends to visit Burma and convene a meeting at the UN General Assembly to press for accountability for human rights violations and the creation of conditions in Rakhine State that would allow refugees to return.