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My Lords, does the Minister agree with Amnesty International that the atrocities committed by the Sudanese armed forces in South Kordofan, including deliberate attacks on civilians, hospitals, schools and NGOs, constitute war crimes for which the leaders of the junta should be indicted? Could we propose to the UN Security Council that a task force be appointed to collect the evidence that would allow such prosecutions to be made at the International Criminal Court against any of the criminals who might stray into the jurisdiction of countries that believed in the rule of law?

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
9 September 2015
Reference
764 c1426
House
House of Lords

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what consideration they have given to imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabian ministers responsible for legislation providing for sentences of cruel and unusual punishments, particularly for acts permitted under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 January 2015
Reference
HL4175
House
House of Lords

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what steps, if any, they will propose should be taken by the United Nations Security Council to monitor effectively the prohibition of all offensive military flights over Darfur as provided by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1591.[HL2340]

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 October 2013
Reference
HL2340; 748 c108WA
House
House of Lords

Lords debate on motion to call attention to the situation in Zimbabwe. Motion withdrawn.

Lead member
Lord Avebury
Answering member
Lord Howell of Guildford
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Debates
Date
10 March 2011
Reference
725 c1797-831
House
House of Lords
My Lords, while acknowledging the importance of the sanctions committee, I should like to ask the noble Lord about other matters that are outstanding from this and previous resolutions of the Security Council. In particular, what steps are being taken towards the reprofessionalisation and re-equipment of the national army to a smaller size so that it can fulfil its own commitments to protecting the civilian population? Given that in the recent rampage by the LRA in Haut-Uele, MONUC was able to supply only logistical help, can the noble Lord answer the question put to him by the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildford, about when we expect the additional 3,000 troops, and the 20 helicopters that were supposed to accompany them, to be provided by the Security Council?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
10 February 2009
Reference
707 c1017-8
House
House of Lords

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether, following the judgment of the Court of First Instance of the European Communities of 4 December in Case 284/08, representatives of member states in the Council of Ministers can vote individually on the names of organisations listed in the Annex to Council Regulation (EC)...

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 January 2009
Reference
182; 707 c24WA
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether, following the allegations on the BBC News 24 programme ““Our World”” on 29 June on imports of gems and timber of Burmese origin, they will consult other European Union member states on monitoring imports covered by the sanctions introduced on 10 March; and whether those sanctions...

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
14 July 2008
Reference
4530; 703 c107WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, will the noble Lord seek to ensure that the final texts of the Security Council resolution and the G8 insist that no interim Government be formed of which Mugabe is a part? Secondly, does he not see some incongruity between the Foreign Secretary addressing 2,000 victims of Mugabe’s terrorism in Johannesburg while at the same time the Home Secretary is causing letters to be sent to their counterparts in the UK cutting off their benefits and forcing them to return to Harare?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
8 July 2008
Reference
703 c630-1
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What is their response to the de-listing request concerning Mrs Agnes Reeves-Taylor, submitted under the United Nations Focal Point for De-listing (Resolution 1730 (2006)).

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
17 June 2008
Reference
3931; 702 c162WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, has the Minister seen that some participants have withdrawn from the international donor consortium meeting now taking place in consequence of Khartoum’s refusal to allow humanitarian access to Darfur to be placed on the agenda? What was the decision of Britain and the European Union concerning participation in that meeting? Does he now consider that the situation in Darfur is an overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe at least equivalent to what obtained in Kosovo and that therefore the international community is entitled under international law to intervene, with force if necessary, against the wishes of the Sudanese Government?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
20 March 2007
Reference
690 c1144-5
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:What action they have taken to comply with the ruling of the European Court of First Instance in the case Organisation des Modjahedines du Peuple d'Iran v Council of the European Union, annulling Council Decision 2005/930/EC of 21 December 2005 freezing the funds of the organisation; and...

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Notes
DEC2005/930/EC
Date
12 March 2007
Reference
690 c97WA; 2432
House
House of Lords

asked Her Majesty's Government:Whether they will seek to extend the European Union sanctions against leaders of the Zanu-PF regime in Zimbabwe to cover Gideon Gono, governor of the Reserve Bank.

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 February 2007
Reference
2107; 689 c296WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, will the Government propose to the German presidency that additional measures be taken to inform African leaders and the public in African states, particularly in SADC, that there never have been European Union sanctions against Zimbabwe, but that there are sanctions against 126 named individuals whose policies are to undermine human rights, freedoms and the rule of law? Has the Minister seen the remarks attributed to ex-Minister Jonathan Moyo last week on radio SW Africa, when he said that even Zanu-PF leaders are beginning, "““to ask fundamental questions about the state of the economy, the state of the country, and … the state of their party””?" Is it not therefore time to strengthen the restrictions on the ability of those people to travel out of the country or to secrete in foreign banks the assets that they have stolen from their people?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
8 January 2007
Reference
688 c8
House
House of Lords
My Lords, what is the Government's response to the warning by the International Crisis Group that foreign military intervention, as advocated by the US in a draft Security Council resolution, would be likely to cause further desertions from the TFG and even to prompt military action by the Islamic courts against their remaining stronghold of Baidoa? Would it not be perverse if the Security Council, having only yesterday passed a resolution condemning the significant increase in the flow of weapons to Somalia in contravention of the arms embargo imposed as long ago as 1992, were now itself to endorse the US call for the embargo to be lifted in favour of the TFG?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
30 November 2006
Reference
687 c846
House
House of Lords

What assessment they have made of the decisions taken on Somalia at the African Union summit in Banjul, Gambia.

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
11 July 2006
Reference
6720; 684 c112WA
House
House of Lords

What investigations they have made or suggested during the United Kingdom presidency of the European Union into the sources of weapons and equipment used by the Janjaweed.

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
29 November 2005
Reference
2325; 676 c26-8WA
House
House of Lords

Why the list, with supporting evidence, of those found to have violated the measures imposed in paragraph 20 of Security Council Resolution 1493 (2003) of 28 July, 2003 concerning the Democratic Republic of Congo and those found to have supported them, has not yet been provided to the Security Council by...

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
21 July 2005
Reference
1295; 673 c267-8WA
House
House of Lords
My Lords, are there not a number of serious allegations—apart from those made by Amnesty International—in the report of the group of experts appointed under Security Council Resolution 1533? Are we not obliged by Security Council Resolution 1596 to investigate the activities of our nationals when they are alleged to be involved in the operation of aircraft used for the transfer of arms? Does that not require us to launch investigations, rather than waiting for evidence to be submitted to us? Why has the United Nations not published the report of the group of experts which was meant to be submitted to it on 12 July? What is the reason for the delay?
Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Oral questions - Supplementary
Status
Answered
Date
13 July 2005
Reference
673 c1102
House
House of Lords

Whether, during their presidency of the European Union, they will resist attempts to weaken the European Union’s arms embargo against China; and whether they will seek to commission a European Union investigation of the alleged Chinese sale of jet fighters and military vehicles to Zimbabwe.

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 July 2005
Reference
785; 673 c94WA
House
House of Lords

Whether they will add to the list of Zimbabwean nationals who are refused entry to the European Union a United Kingdom list of close supporters and collaborators of the regime including Mr Gideon Gono (Governor, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe), Mr Stalin Mau Mau (former Zanu-PF Parliamentary candidate), Mr Osias Bvute...

Asked by
Lord Avebury (Liberal Democrat)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 2004
Reference
HL 3494; 664 c36WA
House
House of Lords