Yemen: Military Intervention

(asked on 20th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what the Government's policy is on each of the findings of the Saudi-led Coalition's Joint Incident Assessment Team's investigations of eight airstrikes, published on 4 August 2016.


Answered by
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Tobias Ellwood
This question was answered on 13th January 2017

The UK welcomes the release by the Joint Incidents Assessment Team (JIAT) of the outcome of eight investigations into incidents of alleged breaches of international humanitarian law (IHL) in Yemen. It is important that credible allegations of violations of IHL are investigated and the Saudi-led Coalition has committed to doing this. We regularly press, including at senior levels, the need for the Saudi-led Coalition to conduct thorough and conclusive investigations into reports of alleged violations of IHL. The UK has not been directly involved in investigations undertaken by the JIAT, but has supported its development and delivered two training sessions in Saudi Arabia on the process for investigating alleged IHL violations.

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