Letter to the Head, Parliamentary Relations
Team, Foreign and Commonwealth Office from the Committee Specialist
In your letter of 29 August in follow-up to
the evidence which Lord Malloch-Brown gave on 2 July to the Committee's
inquiry on "Global Security: Japan and Korea", you referred
to the forthcoming October 2008 meeting of the Executive Committee
of the Programme of the High Commissioner for Refugees (ExCom).
You said that the Government was "considering raising the
issue" of China's compliance with the Refugee Convention,
with respect to its treatment of North Korean emigrants in China,
at the ExCom meeting.
The ExCom meeting took place between 6 and 10
October. The Committee would like to know whether or not the Government
did raise the issue at the meeting; if it did not, why not; and
if it did, with what expected results.
As the Committee is now finalising its Report,
it would appreciate a response by 3 November.
Thank you in advance.
23 October 2008
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