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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN 17140, tabled on 5 March 2024

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the debate entitled Globalisation in times of crisis and war: the role of the OECD since the Russian Federation’s aggression against Ukraine at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 24 January 2024.

Answered on

12 March 2024

The UK has played an important role in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) response to Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, including by making Ukraine a focus of the UK chaired Ministerial Council Meeting in 2023. We have also fully supported the OECD's firm response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, including its decision to suspend Russia and Belarus from OECD bodies and programmes, close the OECD office in Moscow and open an OECD-Ukraine liaison office in Kyiv.

We also strongly support the OECD's broader work to address shared challenges in the current global context, including its work to promote economic resilience and tackle social inequality.

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