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Rapid Support Forces

Commons · Question 46778 · Tabled 22 Apr 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 8 May 2025

Question

Asked by Rupa Huq

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether his Department is taking steps to ensure that the rapid support forces comply with UN Security Council Resolution 2736.

Answer

Answered by Hamish Falconer, 8 May 2025

The UK continues to use all diplomatic levers at its disposal to press the parties, including the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), to comply with UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2736. Despite the Russian veto in November of a UK-Sierra Leone led resolut...