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Saudi Arabia: Convention on Cluster Munitions

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 62254, tabled on 30 January 2017

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 16 June 2016 to Question 40456, what recent representations the UK has made to Saudi Arabia to accede to the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and on what dates those representations were made.

Answered on

7 February 2017

In line with our obligations under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, we regularly encourage Saudi Arabia, as a non-party to the Convention, to accede to it. The most recent Ministerial engagement on this issue was in October. Foreign Office Ministers, our Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and officials have frequent meetings with the Saudi government and officials to discuss a full range of regional and bilateral issues.

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