Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the recent launch by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees of the campaign iBelong, which has the aim of ending statelessness within ten years, what representations they have made to Arab League countries concerning their policy of refusing citizenship to Palestinian refugees residing in those countries.

The UK commends the launch of the campaign iBelong by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The UK’s longstanding position is that we support a just, fair and agreed settlement for Palestinian refugees as part of a negotiated settlement between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. We have not made any representations on this issue.