Urgent Question on the situation in Aleppo: 3 May 2016
3 May 2016 (updated on 3 May 2016)
The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Tobias Ellwood, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, on the current situation in Aleppo, Syria.
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