Belarus Military Aid

Select Committee

MENA0023 - The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Written Evidence Dec. 18 2023

Inquiry: The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Military commander Abdel Fattah el-Sisi came to power through a coup in 2013.

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Dec. 14 2023

Committee: European Affairs Committee

Found: , the biggest diplomatic network and the second biggest aid budget.

Lords Chamber
North Korea - Thu 14 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Swire (Con - Life peer) the vote at the UN on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russia was supported in that instance only by Belarus - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) using the global human rights sanctions regime—Magnitsky sanctions—to hold to account officials in Belarus - Speech Link
3: Baroness Cox (XB - Life peer) Some $620 million of this military budget is spent on nuclear weapons. - Speech Link
4: Lord Collins of Highbury (Lab - Life peer) The FCDO also raised the issue of“The transfer of money, military equipment or technology bolstering - Speech Link

Select Committee

Oral Evidence Dec. 12 2023

Inquiry: Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK-EU relations
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: European Affairs Committee

Found: response and the provision of lethal aid, is significant and meaningful.

Westminster Hall
Universal Declaration of Human Rights and UN Convention on Genocide - Thu 07 Dec 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Tony Lloyd (Lab - Rochdale) Ukrainian children have been kidnapped; only 300 of them have been returned from Russia or, possibly, Belarus - Speech Link
2: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) As well as the diplomatic and military, civil society is absolutely crucial. - Speech Link
3: Lyn Brown (Lab - West Ham) surely goes without saying that preventing a crisis avoids the vastly bigger costs of humanitarian aid - Speech Link
4: Andrew Mitchell (Con - Sutton Coldfield) Britain recently announced an additional £30 million of British aid for vital supplies into Gaza.In Ukraine - Speech Link

Parliamentary Research
Arms export licences for sales to Israel - CDP-2023-0223
Dec. 05 2023

Found: Upon publication, the annual report contained only Belarus and China (PDF) as case studies.

Scottish Cross Party Group Publication (Minutes)
Published: 5th Dec 2023
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Ukraine
Document: Minute of the meeting on 5 December 2023 (PDF)

Found: SAS CS emphasizes Scotland's advocacy for transparent and supportive immigration policies to aid displaced

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Holodomor Memorial Day - Tue 21 Nov 2023

Mentions:
1: Beattie, Colin (SNP - Midlothian North and Musselburgh) officials without the knowledge and instruction of the central Government—the Soviet secret police, its military - Speech Link
2: Gibson, Kenneth (SNP - Cunninghame North) Meanwhile, Moscow rejected aid from abroad and grain rotted in warehouses. - Speech Link
3: McKelvie, Christina (SNP - Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse) committed to the European convention on human rights and that it does not become an outlier like Russia and Belarus - Speech Link

Select Committee

RIU0023 - Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK-EU relations

Written Evidence Nov. 20 2023

Inquiry: Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for UK-EU relations
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: European Affairs Committee

Found: humanitarian and even defence assistance to Ukraine; and 11 packages of sanctions against Russia and Belarus

Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Home Office

Nov. 20 2023

Found: at their own expense or at public expense in accordance with provision made for this by the Le gal Aid