Foreign Affairs Committee — hearing of 7 July 2026: transcript & video

00:03 - 00:12

Speaker 3

Thank you, Minister, for appearing in front of the committee today. Would you like to introduce yourself and perhaps Dr. Dixon could introduce himself as well?

00:12 - 00:15

Speaker 1

My name is Hamish Falconer, I'm the Minister for the Middle East.

00:15 - 00:21

Speaker 11

I'm Rob Dixon, I'm the Director for Middle East and North Africa in the FCDO.

00:21 - 01:28

Speaker 2

So, July marks a year since the publication of the committee's report on Israel and Palestine, and this session is really a follow-up on the recommendations issued to the government and to find out more about the current situation in the Middle East, because although we wrote the report a year ago, so much has happened since then. So there's a certain amount of reference to the report, but obviously you'll understand that we also want to refer to the current situation as well. So, perhaps if I can start with some of that. In the government's response to our report, you agreed to many of our recommendations and I wondered how many of them you were tracking progress against. I mean, clearly some of them happened sort of immediately, the recognition of Palestine and then the whole initiative in relation to peace, but there were a number of other recommendations that we made that we believe that you had agreed that you would deal with, but we're not sure how many of those have actually you've actually been able to progress.

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