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Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: Joint Statement following Russia’s veto of the mandate renewal of the UN Security Council’s 1718 Committee Panel of Experts
Document: Joint Statement following Russia’s veto of the mandate renewal of the UN Security Council’s 1718 Committee Panel of Experts (webpage)

Found: Joint Statement following Russia’s veto of the mandate renewal of the UN Security Council’s 1718 Committee


Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 28 2024

Source Page: Efforts to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware: joint statement
Document: Efforts to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware: joint statement (webpage)

Found: Efforts to counter the proliferation and misuse of commercial spyware: joint statement


Written Question
North Korea: Human Rights
Thursday 28th March 2024

Asked by: Robert Buckland (Conservative - South Swindon)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of progress on human rights in North Korea since the publication of the UN Report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea -­ A/HRC/25/63.

Answered by Anne-Marie Trevelyan - Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)

The UK is deeply concerned about the appalling human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), as documented by the 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry Report on Human Rights in the country. The UK has responded to the report's recommendations by continuing to press for an annual debate in the UN Security Council, and working to secure a robust resolution on the DPRK at the UN Human Rights Council. On 17 August 2023, at the first UNSC open meeting on the human rights situation in the DPRK since 2017, the UK highlighted inextricable links between the DPRK's human rights violations and its illegal weapons programme, and called on the DPRK to engage with the UN Special Rapporteur. This year, the UK will again work closely with partners to secure a strong resolution which stresses the importance of following-up recommendations from the COI Report and provides the basis for further work on a credible framework for accountability for human rights violations in the DPRK.


Lords Chamber
Cybersecurity and UK Democracy - Tue 26 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: None However, any targeting of Members of this House by foreign state actors is completely unacceptable. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab - Life peer) parliamentarians is not the full extent of this and not at all the action of a friendly state? - Speech Link
3: Baroness Neville-Rolfe (Con - Life peer) have been issued by the European Union, by some individual member states, and by Japan and the Republic - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Christians: Persecution - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Baroness Sherlock (Lab - Life peer) mentioned: North Korea is still ranked as the most dangerous place in the world to be a Christian; China - Speech Link
2: Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon (Con - Life peer) scale and diversity, the noble Baroness, Lady Sherlock, mentioned North Korea, and I agree with her. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Cyber-security and UK Democracy - Mon 25 Mar 2024
Cabinet Office

Mentions:
1: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) First, the Chinese look at successful democratic countries, such as the United Kingdom, Japan or the Republic - Speech Link
2: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) I raised the issue with opposite numbers in Japan and Korea when I was there, and I have raised it with - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) We are one of a very small number of countries that have intelligence agencies of this standard. - Speech Link
4: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) I warned that cyber-threats continue to come from the usual suspects—Russia, China, Iran and North Korea - Speech Link


Select Committee
Fourth Special Report - Tilting horizons: the Integrated Review and the Indo-Pacific – Government Response to the Committee’s Eighth Report: Fourth Special Report

Special Report Mar. 22 2024

Committee: Foreign Affairs Committee (Department: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Found: Both Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) are important defence partners for the UK.


Departmental Publication (Guidance and Regulation)
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mar. 21 2024

Source Page: The Antarctic Treaty: Measures adopted at the 45th Consultative Meeting 2023
Document: The Antarctic Treaty: Measures adopted at the 45th Consultative Meeting 2023 (PDF)

Found: Republic, Galera et al. 2017).


Written Question
Fraud: International Cooperation
Thursday 21st March 2024

Asked by: Stephen Timms (Labour - East Ham)

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department is taking to collaborate with its counterparts in other countries to tackle fraud.

Answered by Tom Tugendhat - Minister of State (Home Office) (Security)

Last week the Government hosted the first ever Global Fraud Summit.

This brought together Ministers and senior representatives from the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, France, Germany, Italy, Singapore and the Republic of Korea as well as the United Nations, European Union, Financial Action Task Force and INTERPOL to emphasise the need for international collaboration to tackle fraud.

We agreed an ambitious communiqué which sets out a new international framework to better understand and address the threat and keep our citizens safe.

We will continue to build upon these commitments whilst also engaging bilaterally with key countries to build capability and strengthen their ability to tackle and disrupt fraud before it reaches the UK.


Scottish Parliament Debate - Committee
Review of the EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement - Thu 21 Mar 2024

Mentions:
1: None We currently export to China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and the Gulf states, and that - Speech Link
2: None of Ireland and Northern Ireland, because it is much easier supplying from the Republic of Ireland to - Speech Link
3: None We have something that ticks a box in the Czech Republic, Denmark or Uruguay but it will not be planted - Speech Link
4: None In Scotland, we have a degree of experience in shipping to China, Korea and Malaysia. - Speech Link
5: None There is significant growth in Thailand and Vietnam, and we are already supplying Japan and South Korea - Speech Link