Sir Nicholas Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the compliance of Israel's diplomatic representatives in the UK with their obligation under article 41 of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations on not interfering in the internal affairs of another signatory state; and if he will make a statement.

Mr Tobias Ellwood, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Minister for the Middle East and Africa): Foreign and Commonwealth Office Ministers considered the Vienna Convention implications of the alleged behaviour of an Israeli Embassy official. The Israeli Ambassador has made a full apology and we consider the matter closed.

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