The Foreign Secretary will be aware that, under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 and the Geneva Conventions (Amendment) Act 1995, our country has not only a right, but a duty, to pursue in criminal courts those who are responsible for grave breaches of those conventions. As a matter of urgency, will he therefore speak to the Director of Public Prosecutions with a view to issuing warrants against those who have been found by the Goldstone report to be clearly and flagrantly in breach of those conventions?
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence
Proceeding contribution from
Robert Marshall-Andrews
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 23 November 2009.
It occurred during Queen's speech debate on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence.
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