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Proceeding contribution from Denis MacShane (Independent (affiliation)) in the House of Commons on Monday, 4 April 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Africa and the Middle East.


Africa and the Middle East

May I welcome the work of the Foreign Office and its agents in bringing Musa Kusa to the United Kingdom, even if he brings with him a lot of legal, diplomatic and ethical problems? If he was responsible for giving Semtex to the IRA in the 1970s and '80s, the people who used it to kill and main British citizens are now all out of prison and, in some cases, our partners in devolved Administrations. If people want to quit their regimes, whether in Zimbabwe, Burma or anywhere, and come to the UK, saying that they should go straight to clink and straight away face prosecution is not going to encourage them to defect.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
526 c758 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Bombings Civilians Humanitarian aid EU action Politics and government Military aircraft United Nations Violence UN resolutions Sanctions Lockerbie African Union Middle East Yemen Libya League of Arab States World Food Programme Côte d'Ivoire Gaddafi, Muammar Bahrain Koussa, Moussa
Link
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