Ministerial role

Minister of State (Minister for the Middle East, South Asia and the United Nations)

Organisations: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Responsibilities

The Minister’s responsibilities include:

• Middle East (including Iran)
• India and Indian Ocean
• Afghanistan and Pakistan
• multilateral and United Nations (UN)
• open societies and human rights

Previous holders of this role

1. Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon

   2022 to 2022

Announcements

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• UK announces new support for cholera outbreak in Syria
  • 28 October 2022
  • Press release
• Morad Tahbaz: Lord Ahmad's statement, 26 October 2022
  • 26 October 2022
  • Press release
• Additional £10 million of UK aid for flood relief efforts in Pakistan
  • 13 October 2022
  • Press release
• UN Human Rights Council 51: UK welcomes resolution on Sri Lanka
  • 06 October 2022
  • News story
• Royal visit to Democratic Republic of Congo shows urgent need to tackle sexual violence in conflict
  • 04 October 2022
  • Press release
• UK condemns Iranian attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
  • 28 September 2022
  • Press release

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