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Proceeding contribution from Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 March 2011. It occurred during Debate on North Africa and the Middle East.


North Africa and the Middle East

I agree with the Foreign Secretary that there is a thirst for peaceful, constitutional and democratic change across the region. However, that raises questions about at what point Britain has seriously contested human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Bahrain and several other places, and at what point our thirst for selling arms outweighed our serious concerns about human rights throughout the region. We need a complete rethink of western strategy towards the whole region. Does he agree?


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
525 c496 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed forces Demonstrations Aviation Armed conflict British nationals abroad Deployment Human rights EU action France Politics and government United Nations USA UN resolutions Sanctions Turkey Civil disorder Middle East Yemen Egypt Libya Tunisia UN Security Council League of Arab States North Africa Bahrain Benghazi
Link
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