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Myanmar: Human Rights and Politics and Government

Commons · Question 60027 · Tabled 16 Jun 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 25 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with (a) pro-democracy organisations, (b) civil society and (c) ethnic nationalities in Myanmar to promote (i) federal democracy and (ii) human rights

Answer

Answered by Catherine West, 25 Jun 2025

We continue to discuss the political situation in Myanmar with a range of opposition stakeholders, including the National Unity Government (NUG) and a number of Ethnic Resistance Organisations (ERO). I recently met senior NUG stakeholders, to reiterate UK...