| Heading: |
Morocco: Western Sahara |
| Question ID: |
1804863 |
| UIN: |
53826 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1516 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andy Slaughter
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| Asking Member handle: |
hammersmithandy
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@hammersmithandy
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment he has made of whether the transfer of Moroccan citizens into occupied Western Sahara is a breach of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949. |
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true |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-12 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
5148 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Answering Member handle: |
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Mr Hamish Falconer
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| Answer text: |
The UK is committed to the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide, including in Morocco and Western Sahara, and consistently urges all states to uphold international law and international human rights standards. We regularly make this clear to... |
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| Answering body ID: |
208 |
| Answering body name: |
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |