PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Burma: Humanitarian Aid (5 December 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what representations he is making to the Government of Burma to seek unhindered and unrestricted access for international humanitarian aid to the internally displaced peoples in Kachin and Shan states of northern Burma.

Asked by:
Mr Andrew Mitchell (Conservative)

The UK played a leading role in securing the UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Burma of 27 September that called for immediate, safe and unhindered humanitarian access, including to areas controlled by ethnic armed groups, in particular in Kachin and Shan states. I raised concerns about the Burmese military’s conduct in Kachin and Shan states to the Burmese Minister for International Cooperation on 11 July. Our Ambassador raised the importance of ensuring humanitarian access in his meeting with the Chief Minister of Kachin State on 3 December.

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Answered by:
Mark Field (Conservative)
13 December 2018