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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 222035, tabled on 15 February 2019

Question

Chris Law
Scottish National Party
Dundee West
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, when his Department plans to update the Government Strategy on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict in order to reduce the number of babies dying as a result of armed conflict.

Answer

Mark Field
Conservative
Cities of London and Westminster
Commons

Answered on

20 February 2019

​The Government is reviewing its strategy on Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict now, and we will have more information in due course. The review coincides with the twentieth anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1265 (1999) and the adoption of the Protection of Civilians as an item on the Security Council's agenda.

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