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G8 Summit

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

449 c151-70 

Session

2005-06

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Peter Tapsell | 449 c159 (Link to this contribution) During his rather charmingly self-depreciative luncheon conversation with President Bush at St. Pete...

Tony Blair | 449 c158-9 (Link to this contribution) Of course it is important for Israel to defend itself, and I am sure my hon. Friend agrees that it s...

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Louise Ellman | 449 c158 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the most ominous aspect of the current crisis is Iranian and Sy...

Tony Blair | 449 c159 (Link to this contribution) If it were merely that the cause of all this was the failure to abide by resolution 242, which we su...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 449 c156-7 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that there was much constructive work done at the G8 in relation to Africa, the Doha rou...

Andrew MacKay | 449 c158 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister failed to respond to the Leader of the Opposition’s request for an urgent debate ...

Tony Blair | 449 c158 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend rightly implies, we must put every pressure on Syria. In a sense, the most importa...

Mike Gapes | 449 c158 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend the Prime Minister referred to the need for an international security presence....

Tony Blair | 449 c157 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we want a ceasefire and an end to hostilities, but that will happen only if it happens ...

Tony Blair | 449 c151-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I want to make a statement about the G8 summit, which took place betwe...

Tony Blair | 449 c155-6 (Link to this contribution) I agree in essence with what the right hon. Gentleman has said. Let me just respond to some of the p...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 449 c154-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. It is a deeply troubling time. The citizens of Israel ...

Jeremy Corbyn | 449 c170 (Link to this contribution) We all obviously regret all the violence that is taking place in the region. The Prime Minister conc...

Tony Blair | 449 c170 (Link to this contribution) The only way to stop what I want to see stopped—the killing of innocent civilians—is through the pro...

Mark Pritchard | 449 c169 (Link to this contribution) Some moments ago, the Prime Minister said, ““We are doing everything we can.”” Has he had a personal...

Tony Blair | 449 c169 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that a personal conversation between me and President Assad will do a great deal of go...

Richard Burden | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend that there is neither excuse nor justification for rocket attacks,...

Tony Blair | 449 c168-9 (Link to this contribution) I understand exactly why my hon. Friend says that, but the whole purpose of the road map was to crea...

Graham Stuart | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) Members across the House will welcome the report from the Prime Minister that the G8 recognise the n...

Tony Blair | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend’s comments underline the need at least to debate seriously the idea of an internation...

Tony Blair | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) The goal should be a stabilisation of the world’s climate and temperature. I do not know how far the...

Tony Blair | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) Yes, in the conclusions there is discussion about nuclear safety and what can be done in relation to...

Julian Lewis | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) Given that much sympathy has been expressed for the Government of Lebanon as being helpless to contr...

Tony Blair | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) I have spoken to the Prime Minister of Lebanon. I think Lebanon is looking for international help. T...

David Anderson | 449 c168 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the news about the education for Africa initiative. On the middle east, we learned yesterd...

Gordon Prentice | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) I will be brief. Twenty years after Chernobyl, was there any discussion of the report of the nuclear...

Lord Vaizey of Didcot | 449 c165-6 (Link to this contribution) Could the Prime Minister develop his answer to that question and to the question by the hon. Member ...

Tony Lloyd | 449 c166 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. Friend would agree that if there is to be long-term stability in the ...

Tony Blair | 449 c166 (Link to this contribution) I did notice that. The fact that the G8 statement was agreed, albeit in elliptical terms, made it cl...

Daniel Kawczynski | 449 c166 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has made some unequivocal statements this afternoon about Syria. Is he contemplat...

Tony Blair | 449 c166 (Link to this contribution) The point that my right hon. Friend is making is exactly the reason for resolution 1559. The only wa...

Tony Blair | 449 c166 (Link to this contribution) We have no plans to recall our ambassador, but yes, we are using our relationships with all the diff...

Tom Levitt | 449 c166-7 (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that the present crisis started with the illegal kidnap of one Israeli soldier, bu...

Tony Blair | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) Of course, we put a big reconstruction effort into the Palestinian Authority. My hon. Friend is righ...

Tony Baldry | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said that there would be a review of progress on Africa at the G8 summit in 2007....

Tony Blair | 449 c164 (Link to this contribution) I think that what we can say with certainty is that there is no certainty for the future. However—[I...

Vincent Cable | 449 c164 (Link to this contribution) Returning to energy, what confidence can we have in the ability of political leaders to predict that...

Tony Blair | 449 c164 (Link to this contribution) What my hon. Friend says is very fair and very right. I was just looking at resolution 1559, passed ...

Chris Bryant | 449 c163-4 (Link to this contribution) When it comes to the middle east, does not the international community also need to examine its own ...

Lord Redwood | 449 c165 (Link to this contribution) What action is the United Nations immediately taking to try to get parties around the table to bring...

Tony Blair | 449 c165 (Link to this contribution) The UN envoys are out in the region now. I am not answering questions for them, and to whom they tal...

Andrew Mackinlay | 449 c164-5 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the comments that the Prime Minister made a few moments ago about the regime in Iran and t...

Tony Blair | 449 c165 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that there is no doubt at all that it is supporting terrorist activity aroun...

Harry Cohen | 449 c165 (Link to this contribution) While I agree with much of what the Prime Minister says, especially about the release of the Israeli...

Elfyn Llwyd | 449 c161-2 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister very fairly said that progress on Africa was modest. With regard to the G8 sancti...

Tony Blair | 449 c161 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his work in that area. Had it not been for the fact that the middle east ...

Tony Blair | 449 c162 (Link to this contribution) Actually, substantial sums of money have been pledged to the global health fund—hundreds of millions...

Tony Blair | 449 c163 (Link to this contribution) I accept the implied rebuke of my syntax. The answer is that I think—it has to be agreed—that there ...

Lord Cormack | 449 c163 (Link to this contribution) Accepting entirely the good sense of the G8 statement on the middle east and both what the Prime Min...

Tony Blair | 449 c162 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. Although we have pushed this to its furthest extent on renewables, energy...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 449 c162 (Link to this contribution) May I return the Prime Minister to what, in conversation with President Bush, he referred to as ““th...

Tony Blair | 449 c162 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of shocking us both, I agree with the right hon. Gentleman on that. I would point out on...

Mark Durkan | 449 c163 (Link to this contribution) As deadly violence again convulses the middle east, is the lesson for that region that peoples will ...

Tony Blair | 449 c161 (Link to this contribution) Essentially, I agree with what the hon. Gentleman is saying. I agree in respect of UNIFIL that it wo...

Elliot Morley | 449 c161 (Link to this contribution) May I associate myself with my right hon. Friend’s remarks on the middle east crisis, which clearly ...

Tony Blair | 449 c160 (Link to this contribution) I would simply say that I entirely understand my hon. Friend’s concern, but the trouble is that, in ...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 449 c161 (Link to this contribution) Would the Prime Minister accept that I strongly believe that it would be a great mistake to try to b...

Mark Lazarowicz | 449 c159 (Link to this contribution) Of course Israel has the right to self-defence against terrorism, but surely what is going on now in...

Tony Blair | 449 c159-60 (Link to this contribution) I understand my hon. Friend’s concern that the reaction of Israel has been disproportionate. It is a...

Khalid Mahmood | 449 c160 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the ongoing escalation of violence over the last eight years ha...

Speaker | 449 c160 (Link to this contribution) Order. We must have just one supplementary question; otherwise, it is unfair to other hon. Members.

Ian Taylor | 449 c160 (Link to this contribution) May I switch the subject to what was a backdrop to the G8 summit—the position of President Putin and...

Tony Blair | 449 c160 (Link to this contribution) We did discuss that, and the Russians gave a clear assurance that they would abide by the charter on...

Speaker | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) Order. I can call all the Members standing, but they must be brief.

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 449 c162 (Link to this contribution) Could my right hon. Friend say a little more about his talks on the security of energy supply? He pr...

Tony Blair | 449 c158 (Link to this contribution) The only reason that I did not do so is that, obviously, that discussion should take place between t...

Tony Blair | 449 c167 (Link to this contribution) Obviously that is a danger, but I do not think it will happen. Germany has made it clear that for ne...

Tony Blair | 449 c165 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend said that he agreed with much of what I said, which I shall accept gratefully. No one...

Tony Blair | 449 c163 (Link to this contribution) We are doing absolutely everything that we can in the contacts that we have had with the Israeli Gov...

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Army Armed conflict British nationality Africa Energy International assistance G8 Abduction Peacekeeping operations Terrorism Trade agreements Israel Sudan Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Hezbollah Peace negotiations Darfur Lebanon Gaza Hamas Ceasefires

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