UK Committed to bringing IS children back
UK Committed to bringing IS children back.
Secretary of State for Defense, Penny Mordaunt said, Britain is committed to take back the innocent British children who were born to the “Islamic State” militants and called for the necessity of discussing how to prosecute the organization’s militants on an international level.
Mordaunt said at a military conference in Westminster, according to the Guardian newspaper, “I think the British public would agree we absolutely have an obligation to innocents there.”
Mordaunt clarified that “the question of how to deal with British IS members and their children was being discussed by the UK’s National Security Council (NSC).” Regarding British fighters, even if the UK did not want to take those people back and put them through the justice system, the country had to work with the international community to decide how to deal with them,” Mordaunt said.
Last March, Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, said, “The UK is working on a plan to save the children of the British IS women who have fled the UK to join the Organization in Syria.”
Hunt pointed out that “he is working with former Secretary of State for International Development Mordaunt to discuss how to bring children back to Britain,” and he said, “We have been looking at how we can communicate with the IS children families, and how we can find a way to get them out.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to do anything that makes it possible yet, especially in the absence of an embassy providing consular services in Syria.”
NPA