ANNOUNCEMENT OF EVIDENCE SESSION

TO BE HELD IN PUBLIC

UK policy towards Iran

 

Tuesday 21 January 2014

2.30pm, Grimond Room, Portcullis House

This is the first evidence session for the Committee’s inquiry into UK policy towards Iran, building upon the one-off session held by the Committee on 5 February last year on Iran’s nuclear programme. This inquiry will look at the UK’s role in the negotiations which led to the Joint Plan of Action agreed in Geneva in November 2013, but it is also expected to look more widely at how the UK engages with Iran’s foreign policy and its approach to normalising the diplomatic relationship between the two countries.

Witnesses

At 2.30pm - Sir Robert Cooper KCMG, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, IDEAS Centre

At 3.50pm - Professor Ali Ansari, Director, Institute for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews

 

FURTHER INFORMATION:

·         Committees one-off evidence session held on 5 February

 

Committee Membership is as follows:

Rt Hon Sir Richard Ottaway (Chair) (Croydon South), Conservative; Mr John Baron (Basildon and Billericay), Conservative; Rt Hon Sir Menzies Campbell (North East Fife), Liberal Democrat; Rt Hon Ann Clwyd (Cynon Valley), Labour; Mike Gapes (Ilford South), Labour; Mark Hendrick (Preston), Labour; Sandra Osborne (Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock), Labour; Andrew Rosindell (Romford), Conservative; Mr Frank Roy (Motherwell and Wishaw), Labour; Rt Hon Sir John Stanley (Tonbridge and Malling), Conservative; Rory Stewart (Penrith and The Border), Conservative

 

Specific Committee Information:  Tel: 020 7219 6105; email: FAC@parliament.uk

Media Information:  Alex Paterson: patersona@parliament.uk; 020 7219 1589 or 07917 488488

Committee Websitewww.parliament.uk/facom  

Members of the public wishing to attend the meeting are advised to allow approximately 20 minutes in order to pass through security