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Eritrea: Asylum

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 47300, tabled on 7 October 2016

Question

John Mann
Labour
Bassetlaw
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in Eritrea on the increase in political asylum seekers from that country.

Answer

Mr Tobias Ellwood
Conservative
Bournemouth East
Commons

Answered on

17 October 2016

The UK participates in the EU/Africa Khartoum Process; the main regional mechanism for tackling human trafficking and people smuggling in the Horn of Africa most notably from Eritrea.

We are using our increased engagement with Eritrea to push for the tangible improvements in Eritrea's human rights record, including: amending its national service system; fully implementing its own constitution; and cooperating with international human rights bodies.

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