Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will discuss the removal of Eritrean forces from Tigray with his (a) international and (b) Eritrean counterparts.

The UK welcomes the peace agreement and cessation of hostilities announced on 2 November between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and their commitment to scale-up the delivery of life-saving aid to Tigray. The UK has consistently called upon Eritrea to withdraw its troops from Ethiopia: the need to support the peace agreement has reinforced the case for it do so. The UK will work alongside the Ethiopian Government and others to support implementation of the peace agreement.