Nia Griffith – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Nia Griffith on 2016-07-21.

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps his Department is taking to promote human rights in West Papua.

Alok Sharma

We follow the situation in the province of West Papua with close interest, whilst respecting the territorial integrity of Indonesia. The British Ambassador to Indonesia has visited West Papua a number of times to raise our concerns on this issue with members of the police, religious and community leaders.