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Sri Lanka: Politics and Government

Volume 459: debated on Tuesday 17 April 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what recent assessment she has made of the political situation in Sri Lanka. (130515)

[holding answer 29 March 2007]: I refer my hon. Friend to the answers that I and my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) on 20 March 2007, Official Report, columns 828-29W and 14 March 2007, Official Report, column 283 respectively. I restate that the UK urges both sides to the conflict to pursue a peaceful solution and to do more to protect the civilian population.