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Yemen: Military Intervention

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Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 244004, tabled on 11 April 2019

Question

Stephen Twigg
Labour
Liverpool, West Derby
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make it his policy to support an independent investigation into the airstrike on two schools in Sana’a, Yemen on 7 April 2019.

Answer

Mark Field
Conservative
Cities of London and Westminster
Commons

Answered on

24 April 2019

We are deeply concerned at reports of an explosion at a warehouse near two schools in Sa’wan. British officials have raised this incident with Saudi officials, who have denied publicly that an airstrike took place, and British officials are urgently seeking information from all credible sources. We endorse the statement of the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General of 9 April and continue to call on all parties to the conflict in Yemen to exercise restraint, comply fully with international humanitarian law and implement the Stockholm Agreement without delay in order to improve the humanitarian situation in Yemen.

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