Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the oral contribution of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe in response a question on the Lachin Corridor on 24 April 2023 at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

The UK Government has been clear that continued disruption to the Lachin corridor runs counter to efforts to secure peace and stability in the region. We urge Armenia and Azerbaijan to engage in substantive negotiations to secure a sustainable and peaceful settlement to the Nagorno Karabakh conflict. If an independent international mission to the Lachin Corridor was welcomed by all parties, and would contribute to an early solution, then the UK would, in principle, support it.