Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking in international fora to uphold the right of the people of the Falkland Islands to self-determination and to support their expressed wish for the Islands to remain a British Overseas Territory.

I refer the Honourable member to the answer provided in the House of Lords on 29 September in response to Question HL3618, which - for ease of reference - is reproduced below:

The UK Government continues proactively to defend and promote the Falkland Islanders' right of self-determination in all international fora. This included in advance of both the Organisation of American States General Assembly and the UN Committee on Decolonisation annual discussion of the Falkland Islands, in June. As my Right Honourable friend the Prime Minister said in the House of Commons on 9 September, we will always respect the rights of the Falkland Islanders to choose to be British. Self-determination is a principle grounded in international law and this government will resolutely uphold it at every opportunity on the international stage.