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NATO Summit

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

453 c1239-51 

Session

2006-07

Department

Ministry of Defence

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP 07/257
Wednesday, 20 December 2006
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Viscount Hailsham | 453 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Is it not plain that Ministers deployed British troops to the southern provinces of Afghanistan with...

Jeremy Corbyn | 453 c1247 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm that NATO forces are effectively in control of armed activity th...

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Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that I am in constant touch with not only our commanders on the ground,...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1247 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, and I have consistently said, from this Dispatch Box and elsewhere, tha...

David Crausby | 453 c1246-7;453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) I am encouraged by my right hon. Friend’s comments about the elimination of national caveats by some...

Speaker | 453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) Order. A number of hon. Members are hoping to catch my eye. May I remind hon. Members of Mr. Speaker...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) NATO has long recognised, in its deployment in different regions of the world, that other countries ...

Jane Kennedy | 453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Secretary of State whether the summit considered Iran’s role in the region of Afghanis...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 453 c1249-50;453 c1249 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will be aware that the largest offensive operation by NATO in recent years wa...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1249 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend identifies some of the challenges that we face, but may I tell him that frustration w...

Chris Bryant | 453 c1249 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is extremely patient with our NATO allies, but is he not frustrated by the comp...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1249 (Link to this contribution) NATO is working closely in provincial reconstruction teams in almost every province of Afghanistan. ...

Pete Wishart | 453 c1249;453 c1248-9 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has once again said that NATO and the international community need to do more...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1248-9;453 c1248 (Link to this contribution) First, the mission is not unachievable. Our success in north and west Afghanistan will be sustained ...

Paul Flynn | 453 c1248 (Link to this contribution) The peacekeeping role of NATO forces in recent years has been brilliantly successful in many areas o...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1248 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has the advantage of knowing the facts on Afghanistan, as his contributions to di...

Tobias Ellwood | 453 c1247-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that if we fail in Afghanistan it will not be because of our milit...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1247 (Link to this contribution) The basis of my hon. Friend’s question utterly misrepresents the facts. There was serious war fighti...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1251 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman, among others, raised that issue in business questions, and my right hon. F...

Andrew MacKay | 453 c1251 (Link to this contribution) Why has the Secretary of State made the statement whereas, after each previous NATO summit, a statem...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1251 (Link to this contribution) I am very conscious of the instruction that we all received from the Speaker in relation to statemen...

Gerald Howarth | 453 c1251 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. Without wishing to be churlish, and recognising that the ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1250 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman speaks from significant experience on the ground, as he did an important job in A...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1250 (Link to this contribution) There is no question but that the Canadians have made a significant contribution and they have suffe...

Gordon Prentice | 453 c1250 (Link to this contribution) May I follow the point made by the hon. Member for North-East Milton Keynes (Mr. Lancaster)? The Can...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1251 (Link to this contribution) To the first part of the hon. Gentleman’s question, I say yes. To the second part, I am tempted just...

Nicholas Winterton | 453 c1251;453 c1250-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State accept that if the success of NATO is to continue, national caveats must...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1239-41 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I should like to make a statement on the NATO summit in Riga, which I attended in s...

Nick Harvey | 453 c1243-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his statement and for advance notice of it. I agree that it is go...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1244-5 (Link to this contribution) On the last point, the hon. Gentleman will be aware from the declaration that Riga has successfully ...

Gerald Howarth | 453 c1241-2 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State’s statement reflects the outcome of a very disappointing summit. Had it been ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1242-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman knows that I share his ambition that we will work with our NATO allies to develop...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 453 c1245 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State made an announcement that contains some good things. The NATO response force ...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1245-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his contribution and his recognition of at least two of a numbe...

John P Smith | 453 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend’s statement, but does he agree that the future success of NATO, which...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1245 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for giving me the opportunity to reiterate the Government’s often-stated posi...

Lord Browne of Ladyton | 453 c1247 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. and learned Gentleman overstretches himself in his peroration. On the first part of h...

Bernard Jenkin | 453 c1246 (Link to this contribution) If NATO will not match the commitment that the mission requires it to make in Afghanistan, is not th...

Subjects

Peacekeeping operations Military alliances Afghanistan NATO Military aid Rapid reaction forces NATO response force ISAF

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