Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, whether his Department has been invited to attend the meeting of a new contact group on Syria at the UN in New York in September 2017.

​President Macron has announced his intention to convene a contact group to discuss Syria at the United Nations in New York in September. We are in regular touch with our French counterparts on this and other issues, as part of our close cooperation on Syria.