Oral evidence transcripts

Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system

Witnesses Ms Emma Reilly (Former Human Rights Officer at Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)), and Richard Gowan (UN Director at International Crisis Group)

Inquiry International relations within the multilateral system

Witnesses Lord Malloch-Brown (President at Open Society Foundations)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Mykola Kuleba (Founder of Save Ukraine), Dr Yulia Ioffe (Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) at University College London (UCL)), and Shahida Tulaganova (Filmmaker, war reporter and Director of ‘Ukraine's Stolen Children’)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Dr. Radwan Masmoudi (President at Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy), Dr Shana Cohen (Director at Think-Tank for Action on Social Change), and Amine Ghoulidi (Visiting Fellow at the Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at Heritage Foundation)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Will Todman (Deputy Director and Senior fellow at Middle East Program, CSIS), Urban Coningham (Research Analyst and Course Lead at RUSI), Jonathan Wilks (Former UK Ambassador to Qatar (2020-2023), Iraq (2017-2019), Oman (2014-2017), Syria (2012-2014)), and Professor Gareth Stansfield (Professor of Middle East Politics and former director of the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at The University of Exeter)

Work Western Balkans (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Lord Robertson of Port Ellen (10th Secretary General of NATO from 1999-2004), Ian Cliff OBE (Former British ambassador to Kosovo (2011-2015) and British ambassador to Croatia (2015-2016)), and Dr Andi Hoxhaj OBE (Lecturer in Law at University College London)

Work Follow-up to Xinjiang inquiry (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Chloe Cranston (Head of Thematic Advocacy Programmes at Anti-slavery International), Rahima Mahmut (UK Director at World Uyghur Congress), and Yalkun Uluyol (Researcher at Forced Labour Lab, Sheffield Hallam University)

Work Follow-up to Xinjiang inquiry (Non-inquiry session)

Witnesses Sir Geoffrey Nice KC (Chair of the Uyghur Tribunal), Dr Kate Ferguson (Co-Executive Director at Protection Approaches), and Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws (Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers)

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and David Reed MBE (Director, Sanctions Directorate at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office)

Inquiry The situation in Ukraine and the UK’s response

Witnesses Dr Maria Shagina (Senior Research Fellow at International Institute for Strategic Studies), and Professor Philippa Webb (Professor of Public International Law at Kings College London)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Alistair Burt (former Minister of State for the Middle East at Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Dr. Gershon Baskin (Co-Chairman at Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)), and Samer Sinijlawi (Founding Chairman at Jerusalem Development Fund)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Gershom Gorenberg (journalist and historian, author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements 1967-1977), Dr Rashid Khalidi (Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University), and Colonel (Retired) Miri Eisin (Managing Director at International Institute for Counter-Terrorism)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Tim Eaton (Senior Research Fellow in the MENA programme at Chatham House), Peter Millett (Former UK Ambassador to Libya), and Denisse Rudich (Director of Rudich Advisory and adviser at The Sentry)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Farea Al-Muslimi (Research Fellow in the MENA programme at Chatham House), Helen Lackner (Former Visiting Fellow at European Council for Foreign Relations and former Research Associate at SOAS), and Dr Elisabeth Kendall (Mistress at Girton College, University of Cambridge and former Senior Research Fellow in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Pembroke College, University of Oxford)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses The Rt Hon Jack Straw (Former Foreign Secretary at Foreign and Commonwealth Office)

Inquiry The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy

Witnesses Edmund Fitton-Brown (Former Coordinator at UN Sanctions Monitoring Group), SOAS Middle East Institute, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies and KCL, and Jerome Drevon (Jihad and Modern Conflict Senior Analyst at International Crisis Group)

Inquiry Work of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Witnesses Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses Professor Anoush Ehteshami (Professor of International Relations at School of Government and International Affairs, University of Durham), Professor Simon Mabon (Professor of International Politics at Politics, Philosophy and Religion Department, University of Lancaster), and Professor Christopher Phillips (Professor in International Relations at School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London)

Inquiry The UK’s engagement with the Middle East and North Africa

Witnesses John Casson (Former Foreign Affairs Private Secretary to the Prime Minister and ambassador to Egypt at Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office), and Jay Mens (Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange)