Special Report Jan. 25 2024
Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)Found: Shortly afterwards, the Foreign Secretary was pleased to meet the Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan at
Mar. 12 2024
Source Page: Security and Policing 2024Found: South Korea Spain Sweden Taiwan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan UAE Ukraine USA Uzbekistan
Asked by: Baroness Hoey (Non-affiliated - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the amount of drone equipment and heavy machinery going from the UK to Armenia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan which is then sent on to Russia.
Answered by Lord Offord of Garvel - Shadow Minister (Energy Security and Net Zero)
HMG has sanctioned every item that Ukraine has found Russia using on the battlefield to date. This includes goods that could be used for drones and heavy machinery.
We maintain a Common High Priority List (CHPL) of items critical to the Russian military, to thwart attempts to circumvent sanctions through third countries.
We continue to engage with relevant countries and monitor our exports for signs of circumvention, to do everything we can to ensure that sanctioned UK technologies do not make it to Russia.
Asked by: Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Labour - Slough)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what diplomatic steps he is taking to prevent businesses from evading sanctions by exporting goods to Russia via third countries.
Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Working closely with G7 partners, we have stepped up our engagement with third countries to support them to tackle circumvention of UK sanctions. We have sent joint delegations to UAE, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, and Armenia, to highlight risks and offer technical support to government and business.
The UK Government supports businesses domestically to tackle sanctions evasion, including by publishing guidance for exporters and by publishing the "Common High Priority Items List" of goods critical to Russia's military. HMG is also standing up the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation, which will boost the enforcement and implementation of UK trade sanctions.
May. 23 2024
Source Page: Report by Head of OSCE Programme Office in Bishkek: UK response, May 2024Found: value of diplomacy and peaceful dialogue, and we commend the involvement of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
Feb. 14 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 08/02/2024 from The Earl of Minto to Lord Collins of Highbury regarding issues raised in a debate on Ukraine: seizure of Russian state assets to fund Ukraine's reconstruction and the issue of sanctions circumvention. 2p.Found: issued a decree prohibiting the export, in certain circumstances, of these items to Russia; Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Asked by: Viscount Waverley (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask His Majesty's Government, with regard to the visit to the UK by Bakhtiyor Saidov, the Foreign Minister of Uzbekistan, on 24 July, what priority areas were put forward in discussion by (1) Uzbekistan, (2) the UK; and when they anticipate that a return visit will take place to Uzbekistan by the Foreign Secretary or another Secretary of State.
Answered by Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
The Foreign Secretary met Uzbek Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov on 24 July to discuss how to advance our interests together, and how we can build stronger cooperation. The UK is committed to working with Uzbekistan across our many shared priorities: security, trade, human rights, climate and the war in Ukraine. The Foreign Secretary's travel plans over the next year are yet to be decided, however he is committed to increasing ties with Uzbekistan. The Minister for Europe and Central Asia, Leo Docherty, visited Uzbekistan on 6 June and has since visited the four other Central Asian Republics.
Mentions:
1: Lord Lilley (Con - Life peer) will disregard such rulings and have already begun to do so by sending an Uzbek asylum seeker back to Uzbekistan - Speech Link
Jul. 03 2008
Source Page: List of flights where the UK government has been alerted to concerns regarding rendition through the UK, it overseas territories or the Crown dependencies. 13 p.Found: 67 REPRIEVE REPORT 'SCOTTISH INVOLVEMENT IN EXRAORDINARY RENDITION' N379P 19/06/2002 5:00 TASHKENT UZBEKISTAN
Jan. 12 2024
Source Page: UK overseas trade in goods statistics: November 2023Found: 6468440993 Norway 2409963485 Electronic equipment 5750514241 China 1844536943 Precious metals 4711676079 Uzbekistan