Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of calls by Amnesty International on 24 October for the UN Security Council to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court.

We condemn the ongoing serious human rights violations in Rakhine State, as well as previous atrocities against the Rohingya. These actions require further scrutiny and the UK is supportive, in principle, of any attempts to bring these issues before the International Criminal Court. Our assessment, however, remains that there is insufficient support amongst Security Council members for an International Criminal Court (ICC) referral. It will not advance the cause of accountability in Myanmar for an ICC referral to fail to win Security Council support or to be vetoed.