NICHOLAS SOAMES’S QUESTION TO INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY ON AID TO MADAYA, SYRIA

11th January 2016

Sir Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con): May I say to my right hon. Friend how glad I am that our country is the second biggest donor to Syria and that Britain has sponsored the aid convoy to Madaya? Does she agree that the appalling and unspeakably cruel acts that have been visited on mainly women and children in Madaya and elsewhere amount to a fundamental breach, even in such a barbaric conflict, of all the laws of war, and are thus war crimes? Does she agree that those responsible will be brought to justice, and that the British Government will see to it?

Secretary of State for International Development; Justine Greening MP: This is a clear breach of humanitarian law. We cannot see those who perpetrate these sorts of crimes and illegalities go unpunished. The system relies on there being no impunity for people who are involved in perpetrating such atrocities.

House of Commons
Monday, 11th January, 2016

Volume 604
No 94
Column 587

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