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Proceeding contribution from Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 3 May 2011. It occurred during Ministerial statement on Counter-terrorism.


Counter-terrorism

My hon. Friend has made a good point, which is linked to the point made at Question Time by the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn). We are not there to pick a Government for Libya—to say, ““You can have this sort of Government but not that sort of Government.”” We are there, basically, to put in place United Nations resolutions 1970 and 1973, and to allow the Libyan people to choose their own Government in their own way. It may well be, in the end, a Government with whom we do not have 100% agreement, but one of the lessons that we have learnt in recent years is that that is how to make progress, rather than our trying—as I have put it in the past—to impose such things from above.


Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
527 c470-1 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Counter-terrorism Death Armed conflict Pakistan Terrorism USA Afghanistan Libya al Qaeda Military intervention Embassies bin Laden, Osama Special forces
Link
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