Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what discussions they have had with the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in regard to recent protests in Kinshasa and in the eastern provinces of that country.

I refer the noble Lord to my answer of 23 February to the noble Lord Chidgey (HL4967).

Officials continue to raise the ongoing detention of protestors with senior members of the Congolese government.