Lord Polak (Con)

My Lords, I refer the House to my entry in the register of interests. In the Statement, the Foreign Secretary talked about the Manama dialogue in Bahrain. I was there, and I congratulate the Foreign Secretary for publicly calling for intense efforts to address the crisis in Sudan. She did it there, and that was the right place for her to do it. In the other place, Andrew Mitchell asked the Foreign Secretary to call Africa Union members to encourage them to encourage the US to take this awful slaughter as seriously as they have done with Gaza. Can the Minister tell us whether that is happening? It is, of course, good news that that Resolution 2803 has been passed. I have returned from Germany today and, as my noble friend Lord Courtown quite rightly said, they have lifted the suspension on arms exports to Israel. The Minister said it is early, but they have done it. I therefore asking the Minister whether she will be recommending the same action. Also, will she now say to the Royal College of Defence Studies: enough of this banning of Israelis? At the time, it said that the reason it was banning Israelis was because “the Israeli Government’s decision to further escalate its military operation in Gaza is wrong”. That was on 15 September. The ceasefire took effect in October and we are now in November, so I hope that the Minister will call for that.