Iraq: Internally Displaced People
(asked on 18th December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Iraqi counterpart on the refugees on Mount Sinjar.
This question was answered on 9th January 2015
The UK has worked closely with coalition partners and Iraqi authorities, including the Kurdistan Regional Government, to alleviate the humanitarian situation around Mount Sinjar including delivering humanitarian aid by airdrops. In August, hundreds of Yazidi civilians became trapped around Mount Sinjar when fleeing ISIL. We are in close contact with partner agencies, including the UN, on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. We regularly discuss the situation in Iraq with the Iraqi government at both ministerial and official level, most recently when I met Iraqi Foreign Minister HE Dr Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, on 5 January 2015.
The UK has worked closely with coalition partners and Iraqi authorities, including the Kurdistan Regional Government, to alleviate the humanitarian situation around Mount Sinjar including delivering humanitarian aid by airdrops. In August, hundreds of Yazidi civilians became trapped around Mount Sinjar when fleeing ISIL. We are in close contact with partner agencies, including the UN, on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. We regularly discuss the situation in Iraq with the Iraqi government at both ministerial and official level, most recently when I met Iraqi Foreign Minister HE Dr Ibrahim Al-Jaafari, on 5 January 2015.