Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what representations she has made to her Azerbaijani counterpart on the need to release Armenian prisoners of war.

The UK Government continues to raise the importance of the return of all prisoners of war and we welcome the most recent return on 19 October. During visits to Armenia and Azerbaijan in February, I urged both parties to work with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to expedite the return of all prisoners of war. In my most recent conversations with the Azerbaijani and Armenian Foreign Ministers, on 14 June and 6 September respectively, I raised the importance of the return of all prisoners of war and detainees.