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Western Sahara: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Commons · Question 74321 · Tabled 2 Sep 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 17 Sep 2025

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Asked by Ben Lake

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, if he will have discussions with his Moroccan counterpart on the blocking of visits by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to occupied Western

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Answered by Hamish Falconer, 17 Sep 2025

The UK has endorsed Morocco's autonomy plan as the most credible, viable and pragmatic basis for a lasting solution of the Western Sahara conflict and welcomed Morocco's stated commitment to provide further details of what autonomy within a Moroccan state...