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Genocide Convention

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN HL4442, tabled on 8 January 2018

To ask Her Majesty's Government what legal opinion, if any, they have sought from experts on international law to clarify their obligations under the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Answered on

22 January 2018

Legal advice obtained by Her Majesty's Government (HMG) is confidential. Save in exceptional circumstances, HMG do not disclose whether legal advice has been sought; if so, what that advice was; or the source of such advice.

Answered by

Foreign and Commonwealth Office