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Japan: Foreign Relations

Commons · Question 24067 · Tabled 14 Jan 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 23 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Freddie van Mierlo

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps his Department took to support the Nagasaki Peace Memorial Ceremony in August 2024; and if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the non-attendance

Answer

Answered by Catherine West, 23 Jan 2025

We have consistently been represented at the Nagasaki peace ceremony by our Ambassador or a senior diplomat since 2010. Last year was no different: the British Embassy's Minister Counsellor Political, our second most senior diplomat in Japan at the time, ...