Proceeding contribution from Rory Stewart (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 28 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on North Africa and the Near and Middle East.
North Africa and the Near and Middle East
I agree absolutely, yet it was, to quote the Duke of Wellington, a ““damn close run thing””. We stretched our military sinews and our diplomatic resources hard to achieve that success in Libya. We did it by pulling Dominic Asquith in from Egypt and John Jenkins; we gathered almost all the Arabists at our command to deal with one single country of 6 million people in north Africa.
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- 2010-12
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- Armed conflict Elections Human rights International assistance EU action Foreign relations Politics and government Piracy Terrorism Saudi Arabia Israel Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Yemen EU external relations Morocco Egypt Libya Tunisia Somalia North Africa Horn of Africa Maghreb Bahrain Sahel
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