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The UK has made it clear to the Israeli Government that more needs to be done to meet its commitments to ease restrictions on exports, as agreed with the Quartet Representative in February 2011. This includes lifting restrictions on the transfer of goods to the West Bank and exports to Israel, which form Gaza's traditional markets. We continue to raise this issue regularly at both official and ministerial level, including in recent visits to the region by the Secretary of State for International Development, my right hon. Friend the Member for Sutton Coldfield (Mr Mitchell), and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshire (Alistair Burt). |