MISC 92: Letter to
the Chairman from Gillian Merron MP,
Parliamentary Under
Secretary of State, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
I am writing to you as Chair of the Foreign
Affairs Committee, to draw your attention to the Written Ministerial Statement
that the Foreign Secretary issued on Colombia today. I enclose a copy
for your and the Committee's information.[1]
As you will see, we are improving and
changing the way we deliver our objectives in Colombia. As well as continuing our
important counter narcotics work, we are strengthening our work on human rights
and supporting and developing civil society, and devoting new resources to
tackling impunity. Our bilateral defence protect on human rights has ceased,
and we are integrating our work on humanitarian demining with international and
civil society partners.
I very much welcome Parliamentary
colleagues' continuing interest in Colombia
and Latin America more generally, including the Foreign Affairs Committee's
comments on Colombia
following the 2007 Foreign and Commonwealth Office Human Rights report. I hope
this engagement will continue.
I hope this is
helpful. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss it in more detail.
30
March 2009
[1] HC Deb, 30 March 2009, col 40WS
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