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Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 24 June 2026

Debate

Darfur: Atrocities

Contribution

My Lords, I thank the Minister for that reply. The Foreign Secretary has said: “El Obeid is on the precipice of an atrocity”, in a country with an estimated 150,000 fatalities and between 14 million and 15 million displaced people. Given that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said yesterday, without a court determination, that what has been happening bears all “the hallmarks of genocide”, how does the Minister counter the criticism of the Government and their policies made yesterday at the International Development Committee of another place? In order to prevent further atrocities, as penholder at the United Nations Security Council, will we now demand an emergency debate, work for the extension of the arms embargo across Sudan and consider the deployment of blue helmets and the imposition of a no-fly zone?

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