Today, the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes written evidence submitted to the Committee by a whistleblower who worked on the Afghanistan Crisis Response within the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). The evidence will form part of the Foreign Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The whistleblower, Raphael Marshall, worked for the FCDO as a Desk Officer.…
The Foreign Office has issued a statement this afternoon instructing all British citizens in Ethiopia to leave the country as soon as possible. It is thought that commercial flights could soon cease as rebel forces near the capital of Addis Ababa. Vicky Ford, the Africa minister, said: “The conflict in Ethiopia is deteriorating quickly. In…
Former Conservative MP Rory Stewart says NATO’s inability to act independently from U.S. foreign policy is “very worrying”. Giving evidence to the foreign affairs committee on the UK’s foreign policy in Afghanistan, Stewart was asked by the chair Tom Tugendhat what the UK should have done differently. The former international development secretary argued the UK…
Government refuses to declare atrocities in Xinjiang a genocide in its response to the Foreign Affairs Committee publishes the Government Response to its report “Never Again: The UK’s Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond”, published over the weekend. The Government states that it will not “make determinations in relation to genocide” in…
