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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 20 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Baroness Beckett. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.

International Affairs

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on international affairs and the situation in the Middle East.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
449 c510-67 
Session
2005-06
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 449 c529 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that Mr. Speaker has placed a 10-minute limit on all Back-Bench speeches, ...
Speaker | 449 c542 (Link to this contribution) Order. As a significant number of hon. Members are still seeking to catch my eye in this debate, in ...
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Baroness Beckett | 449 c513 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way for the moment, as I have already said that I want to make some progress. The E...
Mark Lazarowicz | 449 c513 (Link to this contribution) When the UN Secretary-General’s special envoy reports to the UN later today, will the British Govern...
Andrew Love | 449 c513 (Link to this contribution) Recognising that Hezbollah arose out of the consequences of the invasion of Lebanon by the Israelis ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c513 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that everyone is aware of the many and varied disasters that could follo...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c514 (Link to this contribution) We could do that, and I understand and respect the point that the hon. Gentleman makes. However, I g...
Louise Ellman | 449 c514 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that Hezbollah should be condemned for placing its munitions in dens...
Daniel Kawczynski | 449 c514 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, in his statement on the G8 summit, refused to say whether we would recall our am...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c512 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will have noticed—I think that he will, because he is a fair-minded as we...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) I have already given way four or five times and many Members want to speak. I propose to make furthe...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c515 (Link to this contribution) If colleagues will forgive me, I had better progress a little further. We should also take forward ...
Lord Redwood | 449 c515 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State; she is giving a measured response in her speech. What offer...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c515 (Link to this contribution) I never suspected the right hon. Gentleman of having psychic powers, but that is exactly the point t...
John Hemming | 449 c515 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for her comments in respect of what the Government wish to see. Why w...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c515 (Link to this contribution) Everyone wants to see a cessation of violence as soon as possible. Many of the other routes that one...
Jim Cunningham | 449 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend is aware that there is public concern. Many people do not unders...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c516 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right that one of the concerns that is felt throughout the international ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c514 (Link to this contribution) I am well aware of both the assertion that that is part of the problem and the concern that such act...
David Heath | 449 c514 (Link to this contribution) Many of us recall the admirably balanced statement made by the Minister for the Middle East on Monda...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c514-5 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate the hon. Gentleman paying tribute to my right hon. Friend the Minister for the Middle E...
Patrick Mercer | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way. She will have seen in the recent Intelli...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman says, there are indeed concerns about the scale and nature of terrorism in thi...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c517 (Link to this contribution) If I may, I shall make a little progress first. Sixty-three of the most vulnerable British national...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) I give way first to the hon. Member for Newark (Patrick Mercer).
Baroness Beckett | 449 c517 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend and the whole House will know, we normally hear only from those who feel that publ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c516-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry but I must move on. The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) asked about Britis...
Andrew Miller | 449 c517 (Link to this contribution) To give some hope to the thousands of families who are worried, I point out that the Foreign Office ...
Neil Gerrard | 449 c516 (Link to this contribution) If we are asking the Lebanese Government to implement UN Security Council resolution 1559 and we exp...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c516 (Link to this contribution) I can only say to my hon. Friend that when I looked at the part of my speech that refers to United N...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c521-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the Foreign Secretary’s speech and to the Leader of the House for arranging today’...
Ben Wallace | 449 c520 (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons that Hezbollah is much more potent and that Iran represents a significant threat ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c520 (Link to this contribution) First, I am not sure whether the Iranian ambassador has arrived yet—[Interruption.] If he has, I hav...
Richard Burden | 449 c520 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Baroness Beckett | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) I am very sorry to learn about the concerns that my right hon. Friend has expressed, and entirely ta...
Tony Lloyd | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) Has there been any discussion with the Israeli authorities about what they can do to give proper gua...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to how we are trying to ensure people’s safety, but there ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c519-20 (Link to this contribution) I apologise, but I shall not give way. I have been on my feet for half an hour already and am very m...
Ann Clwyd | 449 c518 (Link to this contribution) I remind my right hon. Friend that other people want to go in the other direction. Earlier today, we...
Chris Mullin | 449 c512 (Link to this contribution) Everything that my right hon. Friend says makes sense and I would not dissent from her analysis of t...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c510 (Link to this contribution) These are grave and serious days for the international community. Of all the difficult issues arou...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) No. I say to my hon. Friend, and to those in all parts of the House who I know share some of his con...
David Winnick | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) I have no illusions whatever about the Iranian-backed groups that are causing so much damage to Isra...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c512 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that, although I understand the argument. I hear and I read and I am familiar—from b...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is aware, I know, that from the outset we have urged on all parties that they should ...
Joan Ruddock | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with the points that my right hon. Friend has made. There can be no doubt that Hezb...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) I can only repeat what I have already said. From the beginning we have urged restraint on Israel, an...
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c511 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary answer the question that she has just been asked? Does she believe that t...
Michael Moore | 449 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will forgive me, I want to make some progress, as many other hon. Members rightly ...
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c533 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman was talking about securing a ceasefire, and I can see that the Israeli Government...
Michael Moore | 449 c533 (Link to this contribution) I am disappointed by the hon. Lady’s question, because I thought that I had dealt robustly with the ...
Michael Moore | 449 c533 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman makes an important point. If I may, I will ask him to pay atten...
Fiona Mactaggart | 449 c531 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has spoken strongly about the capacity of the United States to make a difference. Doe...
Mike Gapes | 449 c531-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that the Israeli Government would be restrained by people saying that they would not a...
Michael Moore | 449 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes), with whom I worked closel...
Louise Ellman | 449 c533 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that, in attributing blame, it is right that he should blame Hezbollah...
Mike Gapes | 449 c530-1 (Link to this contribution) That would be very helpful, but, sadly, as we have seen in Iraq, there are elements internationally ...
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c540 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for asking that question, and I am just coming to the question of Sy...
Brooks Newmark | 449 c540 (Link to this contribution) I draw my right hon. and learned Friend’s attention to the fact that since 12 July, 1,600 missiles h...
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c538-40 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to speak in a debate like this without feeling a sense of sadness and despair. Here ...
Clare Short | 449 c538 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not, and I very much regret the fact that my hon. Friend is so absolutely unbalanced in her...
Clare Short | 449 c536-7 (Link to this contribution) I think we would all agree that all human beings should deplore the killing, injuries and destructio...
Louise Ellman | 449 c537-8 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend holds Israel solely to blame for the failure to reach a solution on the setting...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c534 (Link to this contribution) What I meant was that I would not wish to see the events continue for a second longer. I advise the ...
Michael Moore | 449 c534-6 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has made her position abundantly clear. Unfortunately, the divisions in the i...
Baroness Kramer | 449 c534 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend think that the Minister should address a phrase used by the Foreign Secretary, w...
Michael Moore | 449 c534 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister has heard that point.
Tony Lloyd | 449 c523 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes the essential case that as an act of policy Lebanon must be strengthe...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c523 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points to part of the immense difficulty for the Lebanese Government, because there a...
Chris Bryant | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c523 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. The hon. Gentleman anticipates my next point and underlines the urgency of the case from...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Let me make a little more progress, or my speech will become as long as the Foreign Secretary’s, und...
Brooks Newmark | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Andrew Love | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Was not one of the great successes of the Cedar revolution that the Syrians were made to leave Leban...
Baroness Kramer | 449 c522 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that DFID and other donors face a difficult challenge as they se...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c522-3 (Link to this contribution) The situation is difficult and dispiriting. People will look once again to the generosity of the Bri...
Julian Lewis | 449 c523 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Lebanese Government’s case would be immensely strengthened ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c526-9 (Link to this contribution) The British Government have to work closely with our allies, including our American allies. There sh...
Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 449 c526 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a powerful and important point about the need for international actio...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to apportion blame about the G8. I am making a general point. The United States has en...
Khalid Mahmood | 449 c530 (Link to this contribution) In agreeing with what my hon. Friend says, does he think that it would be positive for the Organisat...
Mike Gapes | 449 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) On behalf of those of us who follow foreign affairs closely, I begin by saying that the dedication a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will forgive me—even though I may have some sympathy with what he says, we are not go...
Neil Gerrard | 449 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman referred to the G8 and the fact that nothing very strong had been said. Is ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. Again, that is a powerful point. Most of the hon. Members who have intervened on me...
William Cash | 449 c524 (Link to this contribution) Did my right hon. Friend by any chance listen to the remarks of Javier Solana on ““Newsnight”” yeste...
Richard Burden | 449 c552-3 (Link to this contribution) When one becomes involved in issues such as those in the middle east and develops friendships there,...
Speaker | 449 c552 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call Mr. John Bercow.
Phyllis Starkey | 449 c551-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, will not be balanced because of the limited time available. I absolutely accept that the Fo...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 449 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) I shall do my best to keep to three minutes. I entirely agree with what the hon. Member for Hartlepo...
Iain Wright | 449 c548-50 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me, but I want to press on. In a meeting in the House only ...
Iain Wright | 449 c548 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend will forgive me, but I want to press on, as I know that other hon. Member...
Richard Younger-Ross | 449 c553-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to repeat the call for another urgent debate on international affairs. The hon. Member...
Crispin Blunt | 449 c558 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statements made by my right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond, Yorks (Mr. Hague) and...
Louise Ellman | 449 c557-8 (Link to this contribution) The events of recent weeks are part of an ongoing tragedy for all peoples of the middle east. Israel...
Baroness Keeley | 449 c559-60 (Link to this contribution) I want to focus my comments on the impact of the conflict on Israeli, Lebanese and Palestinian civil...
Speaker | 449 c558 (Link to this contribution) Order. The letter of the three-minute limit expires at this point, but perhaps its spirit could surv...
Emily Thornberry | 449 c555-6 (Link to this contribution) I begin by saying that I speak as a friend of Israel and a friend to the Palestinians. There are man...
Speaker | 449 c557 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman’s time is up.
Lord Davies of Stamford | 449 c556-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall make five points in three minutes, if I can manage that. First, I think that the Foreign Se...
Lord Cormack | 449 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) I want to make three brief points. First, everyone has talked about the calm and measured speeches ...
Ann McKechin | 449 c554 (Link to this contribution) I shall restrict my remarks to the humanitarian consequences of the conflict. As many speakers have ...
Andrew Love | 449 c541 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. and learned Gentleman give way?
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c541 (Link to this contribution) Right across the region, there are an enormous number of detailed problems that have to be resolved....
Andrew Love | 449 c541 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way. Does he accept that one the issue that ...
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c541 (Link to this contribution) I shall not give way, as I would not get extra time for doing so.
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c541-2 (Link to this contribution) When I say that our troops should return from Iraq, I am told that we would leave chaos behind us. T...
Dai Davies | 449 c544-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to make my maiden speech in this important debate. I s...
Gerald Kaufman | 449 c542-4 (Link to this contribution) Let us set aside the morality of the situation—the wanton slaughter of hundreds of innocent Lebanese...
Richard Younger-Ross | 449 c547 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman balance his comments by accepting that 280 Lebanese have died, most of whom ...
Iain Wright | 449 c546-7 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by paying tribute to the fine maiden speech made by the hon. Member for Blaenau Gwent (M...
Iain Wright | 449 c547 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will be patient, I will come to the question of proportionality shortly. Hezb...
Iain Wright | 449 c547-8 (Link to this contribution) I will come to attacks by Lebanon into Israel shortly. We should all recognise that Hezbollah is als...
Stewart Hosie | 449 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) I wish briefly to take the Minister for the Middle East back to the subject of the preparations for ...
Keith Simpson | 449 c562-4 (Link to this contribution) This debate was called for by a number of hon. Members and hon. Friends, not least those of us who a...
Julian Lewis | 449 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) As I am morally bound to speak for just three minutes—and I shall do so—I shall make only two points...
Kim Howells | 449 c565 (Link to this contribution) No. I have little time, I am afraid. I share the concerns expressed tonight about Lebanon and Israe...
Kim Howells | 449 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very good debate, albeit a very short one. It has been about the huge issues—matters...
Kim Howells | 449 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will send me the details, we will certainly take a look at it. So far, approximat...
Kim Howells | 449 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that, if my hon. Friend had been here earlier, he would have heard this. My right hon. Fri...
Phyllis Starkey | 449 c566 (Link to this contribution) I have raised with the Minister the case of my constituent Mr. Saleh, who is a Lebanese citizen with...
Jonathan Shaw | 449 c567 (Link to this contribution) I beg to ask leave to withdraw the motion. Motion, by leave, withdrawn.
Baroness Beckett | 449 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend not only that we are taking a lead, but that we are doing everything we ...
Crispin Blunt | 449 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) That really will not do as an explanation. Everyone understands that the United States has sent an i...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 449 c540 (Link to this contribution) Is not the problem that the attacks by Hamas in Gaza, and by Hezbollah in Lebanon, were intended pre...
Mohammad Sarwar | 449 c565 (Link to this contribution) The first official Lebanese death toll confirms that 300 people have been killed, 1,000 wounded and ...
Patrick Mercer | 449 c517 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
John Bercow | 449 c552 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Milton Keynes, South-West (Dr. Starkey). I endorse th...
Speaker | 449 c551 (Link to this contribution) Order. The three-minute limit will apply to the next 10 speeches.
Marquess of Lothian | 449 c540-1 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with my right hon. Friend, and I say to him that we ourselves had experience of this...
Ann McKechin | 449 c547 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the attack on the Lebanese barracks that resulted in the death of 11 ...
Baroness Beckett | 449 c520-1 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I must finish. The current crisis in the middle east and the ongoing negotiations w...
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Armed conflict International relations Foreign relations Terrorism Refugees USA Israel Syria Middle East Hezbollah Lebanon Ceasefires
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