Struan was interviewed on the BBC World Service's Newsday programme discussing the plight of ethnic minorities in Iraq.

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A Scottish Euro MP has just returned from four days in Iraq, where he visited Syrian refugee camps, and discussed the country’s worsening human rights situation and persecution of minorities with senior political leaders.

The following article appeared in Scotland on Sunday on 24 November 2013:

Just over a year ago, Michael Moore, the then Secretary of State for Scotland, told the BBC that 16 and 17 year-olds should not be allowed to vote in the referendum on independence. A week is a long time in politics and a year is an epoch, but in that time the Edinburgh Agreement has been signed giving 16 and 17 year olds the right to vote for the first time ever and Michael Moore has been sent to the back-benches to ponder his future.

This month, Struan praises Malala Yousafzai as she collects her Sakharov Prize, highlights religious freedoms under threat worldwide, reports on the aquaculture industry in Vietnam and Laos and calls for greater regulation of e-cigarettes.

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From 25 October to 5 November, as Vice President of the European Parliament's Fisheries Committee, Struan travelled to Laos and Vietnam, at the invitation of these governments, to examine their prospects for aquaculture.

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Struan gave the following speech at a meeting of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq on Thursday 7 November in the European Parliament in Brussels.

This month, as the European Parliament presented Aung San Suu Kyi with her Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, Struan argues that parliamentarians should always make sure their actions match their rhetoric when it comes to supporting champions of liberty no matter where they're from.  Also this month, Struan asks whether European green orthodoxy is really the best way to safeguard biodiversity, highlights the real cost of green energy and welcomes the parliament's passage of the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund.

MEPs from all political groups in the European Parliament have urged the leadership of the EU and the member states to force the Iraqi government to release the 7 hostages, including 6 women, who were abducted by Iraqi government forces on 1 September during the massacre in camp Ashraf. On that day 52 defenceless members of the Iranian opposition PMOI-MEK were executed by Iraqi special forces.