Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will issue a public condemnation of the murder of four trade unionists in Colombia in May 2014.

My Department is aware of the deaths of the four FENSUAGRO trades union members. The British Embassy in Bogota raised the deaths of FENSUAGRO with the Vice-President’s Office. Following this, on 26 June, the Vice-President’s Office stated that they were following up the case with the Ministry of Defence, the Army, the Attorney General’s Office, the Inspector General’s Office and the National Protection Unit. The Vice President's Office has also been in direct communication with FENSUAGRO.