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Lord Purvis of Tweed (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 17 July 2025

Debate

Syria: Druze Community

Contribution

My Lords, I commend the Arab and Turkish efforts in the most immediate ceasefire, and I agree with the most recent comments of Secretary of State Rubio from the United States. Are we co-ordinating with all three of those parties with regard to this? The Minister will recall that, when in Grand Committee we debated the wider exceptions to the sanctions on Syria, I voiced a degree of caution with regard to the UK lifting our sanctions in a very broad way, primarily because of the continuing sectarian violence, the conflict and the lack of territorial integrity that the Minister referred to. Can the Minister reassure the House that the UK is not providing funds or capability to any parts of the military of the Syrian Government that are currently, in effect, part of a belligerent force?

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