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Queen's speech debate on Monday, 12 November 2007, in the House of Commons, led by David Miliband. The answering member was Lord Hague of Richmond.

Foreign Affairs and Defence Debate on the Address

Queen's speech debate (fourth day) on foreign affairs and defence.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
467 c399-501 
Session
2007-08
Department
Ministry of Defence
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Procedure
Addresses to the Crown
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 467 c424 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind all right hon. and hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 12-minute time limit ...
Lord Touhig | 467 c431-3 (Link to this contribution) The international environment in which Britain finds itself is as difficult and complex today as it ...
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Michael Moore | 467 c426-31 (Link to this contribution) It is a real privilege and pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Torfaen (Mr. Murphy). Throug...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 467 c425-6 (Link to this contribution) I have dealt with the answer to that, but I know what the right hon. and learned Gentleman is referr...
Marquess of Lothian | 467 c425 (Link to this contribution) I am interested to hear what the right hon. Gentleman is saying about Northern Ireland. Does he thin...
Lord Touhig | 467 c433 (Link to this contribution) I would not suggest that we pack up and come home. That would not solve the problem. I accept that t...
Paul Flynn | 467 c433 (Link to this contribution) We went into Afghanistan with a hope that we could reduce the number of drugs coming to this country...
Lord Murphy of Torfaen | 467 c424-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to speak in this debate. I should like to talk about two peace pro...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 467 c423-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has just given a helpful new statement of Opposition party policy, although it ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c424 (Link to this contribution) I assure my right hon. and learned Friend that there will be no veering in any direction. I assure h...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 467 c440-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. He led an excellent Westminster Hall debate in which he laid out clearly th...
Lord Benyon | 467 c440 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not think that it is telling that, at the precise moment when the Government hav...
John Baron | 467 c444-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn) made a thoughtful contribution. He knows that w...
Jeremy Corbyn | 467 c441-4 (Link to this contribution) The opening remarks by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs painted a rosy pi...
David Crausby | 467 c446-7 (Link to this contribution) The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have required commitments beyond the call of duty on the part ...
Marquess of Lothian | 467 c434-6 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Islwyn (Mr. Touhig), whose sincere suppo...
Keith Vaz | 467 c436-8 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Devizes (Mr. Ancram), the di...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 467 c438-9 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to be able to welcome the Gracious Speech. I hope that the House paid close attention t...
Adrian Bailey | 467 c439 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Soames of Fletching | 467 c439-40 (Link to this contribution) I shall not, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me. I am talking not solely about the military cove...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c423 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman said ““we would not let matters rest there””; does that mean that we would ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c423 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry not to have called the right hon. Gentleman ““right hon.””; I did not realise that former...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c423 (Link to this contribution) It means what it says. It means exactly what I said earlier. Let us remember that this Government pr...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c422 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the extension of qualified majority voting takes more and more decisions away from the p...
Denis MacShane | 467 c423 (Link to this contribution) Right hon. [Hon. Members: ““Oh!””] The right hon. Gentleman was making a powerful case, as is his wo...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c422 (Link to this contribution) We were bound to get an intervention from the hon. Member for Rotherham.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c422 (Link to this contribution) I must give way to the former Minister for Europe, the author of the famous remark about The Beano.
Keith Vaz | 467 c422 (Link to this contribution) I cannot understand why the shadow Foreign Secretary is against qualified majority voting, bearing i...
Lord Swire | 467 c404 (Link to this contribution) When the Foreign Secretary travels to that part of the world shortly, will he try to impress on the ...
David Miliband | 467 c404 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point, which was the subject of a report on the economic road...
Michael Connarty | 467 c404 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has not yet mentioned the apartheid wall that Israel has built. The Antonine wa...
David Miliband | 467 c404 (Link to this contribution) We have indeed taken up the issue, but I say this to my hon. Friend in all seriousness. The wall, he...
Jeremy Corbyn | 467 c405 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for giving way. Does he not realise that, all the time we are talking,...
David Miliband | 467 c405 (Link to this contribution) I concur with my hon. Friend's concluding comment that the only answer to this dangerous situation i...
Jeremy Corbyn | 467 c404 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 467 c406 (Link to this contribution) I will say two things to my hon. Friend. First, I wish it were as simple as there being only three p...
Paul Flynn | 467 c405-6 (Link to this contribution) Lord Malloch-Brown said that the best way to deal with this situation would be to crack down on the ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 467 c402 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary talked about liabilities. What role does he believe Baroness Vadera played in ...
David Miliband | 467 c402 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that the hon. Gentleman will have to address that question to other quarters. Baroness V...
Claire Curtis-Thomas | 467 c402 (Link to this contribution) I just want to inform my right hon. Friend that I have had a very constructive meeting with Lord Mal...
David Miliband | 467 c402 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. As I explained to the House last week, we are determined t...
Michael Connarty | 467 c402-3 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend quickly passed over the question of the PKK's working with the Government of Tu...
David Miliband | 467 c403 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. Both the Baghdad Government and the Kurdish regional gover...
Tom Levitt | 467 c403 (Link to this contribution) Anyone who has stood in the olive groves of Bethlehem or the town centre of Hebron will have seen th...
David Winnick | 467 c403 (Link to this contribution) I do not for one moment question the right of Israel to exist—that has been my view from the very be...
David Miliband | 467 c403 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, which we have been addressing in this House since the attem...
David Miliband | 467 c403-4 (Link to this contribution) I know the passion and long-term commitment that my hon. Friend has brought to the issue. He is abso...
David Miliband | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman takes the proceedings of this House and the other place very seriously. I am sorr...
Shailesh Vara | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for assisting me even further with the question that will fol...
David Miliband | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) Lord Malloch-Brown is an experienced diplomat with a huge amount to offer to British foreign policy,...
Shailesh Vara | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has said that Lord Malloch-Brown is an experienced politician—
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) As we are talking about the competence of lords, will the Foreign Secretary say what happened to Lor...
David Miliband | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to take further interventions, but I suggest that there are major issues that we want to ...
David Miliband | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) I am about to answer the question. On multiple occasions, the noble Lord referred to Burma, which is...
James Duddridge | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) With those important considerations, is the Secretary of State not concerned that Lord Malloch-Brown...
Keith Vaz | 467 c399-400 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary satisfied with the operation of the entry clearance system in Islamabad dur...
David Miliband | 467 c400 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Clear rules were set out, ironically, in Harare. In 2002, we sho...
Andrew Mackinlay | 467 c400 (Link to this contribution) As I recall, the ground rules for membership of the Commonwealth that are enshrined in the Harare de...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c418 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with that. Anyone who has listened to anything that I have ever said could not po...
Jeremy Corbyn | 467 c418 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman think that in this process concerning Iran it would be a good idea to ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c417-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to pay tribute to the forces involved, and again I do that on behalf of the ...
Denis MacShane | 467 c418 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that Iran has legitimate reasons for wanting nuclear weapons? Th...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c417 (Link to this contribution) Although we are no longer in the headlines because we have withdrawn back to the airport, does my ri...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c421-2 (Link to this contribution) Well, it might be another job for the Minister of State, but perhaps it should be someone who watche...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c420 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend that there are people who should be added to the reserve list and banned...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c418-20 (Link to this contribution) We are certainly in favour of dialogue at all times, but the strong, peaceful action that I am advoc...
Lord Benyon | 467 c420 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that it was very disturbing to read about the last British Airways f...
David Miliband | 467 c413 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman waits a moment. There is something else that the right hon. Gentl...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 467 c414 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the Foreign Secretary's remarks about the referendum and strengthening Parliam...
David Miliband | 467 c413-4 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the hon. Gentleman contains his enthusiasm for a moment. On page 90, under the headi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c414-7 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, may I begin by echoing what the Foreign Secretary said about the dedication, often brav...
David Miliband | 467 c414 (Link to this contribution) The former Prime Minister, if I quote him correctly, said before the general election that the impor...
Greg Hands | 467 c412-3 (Link to this contribution) Clearly the right hon. Gentleman has not read the report of the European Scrutiny Committee, which l...
David Miliband | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist giving way to the hon. Gentleman.
Shailesh Vara | 467 c413 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 467 c413 (Link to this contribution) I have read that report; I just have not read the report of the Transport Committee. As the hon. Gen...
David Miliband | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I have not read the report of the Transport Committee, but I look forward—[Interrup...
Christopher Chope | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) How is what the Foreign Secretary has just been saying consistent with what is happening on the Gali...
David Miliband | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should let me carry on because I need to make some progress. There is a legal lo...
Shailesh Vara | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) With all due respect, the hon. Gentleman has already had one go and I have been speaking for too lon...
Shailesh Vara | 467 c412 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
David Miliband | 467 c411-2 (Link to this contribution) The new treaty creates rights for this Parliament for the first time in a range of areas. As for the...
Michael Connarty | 467 c411 (Link to this contribution) Could the Foreign Secretary add something to the reply given by the Prime Minister when he returned ...
David Miliband | 467 c411 (Link to this contribution) I do not agree with any suggestion that the United Kingdom should give up its seat on the United Nat...
Greg Hands | 467 c410 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State say something about the European Union high representative for foreign a...
David Miliband | 467 c410 (Link to this contribution) Cross-party agreement, not intra-party agreement. The treaty will cut the number of Commissioners. ...
Simon Burns | 467 c410 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary now answer the question posed by my hon. Friend the Member for Hammersmit...
David Miliband | 467 c410 (Link to this contribution) The United Nations is certainly not heading for a single European seat on the Security Council; it i...
Denis MacShane | 467 c408 (Link to this contribution) Very simply, the Foreign Secretary referred to not being faced down by a Russian veto, but will he a...
David Miliband | 467 c408 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important point. I cannot do justice to it now, but the short answer is...
David Miliband | 467 c408-10 (Link to this contribution) There have been encouraging signals from the successive discussions at every Foreign Affairs Ministe...
Lord Swire | 467 c408 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Foreign Secretary. Further to the comments of my right hon. and learn...
David Miliband | 467 c408 (Link to this contribution) I really must make some progress. I looked up last year's debate and I know that the right hon. Memb...
David Miliband | 467 c407-8 (Link to this contribution) I completely share the right hon. and learned Gentleman's position. As it happens, that issue comes ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 467 c407 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned Kosovo, but just in passing. May I encourage him to accept that part...
David Miliband | 467 c406-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises an important question. It is a 2,600 km border and, as I said last week, 9...
Willie Rennie | 467 c406 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned border security. Given the current climate of troubles in Pakistan, ...
David Miliband | 467 c406 (Link to this contribution) As I said, the hon. Gentleman has taken an interest in Afghanistan. Given the litany of problems tha...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c406 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary paints a rosy picture about what is happening in Afghanistan. I agree with wha...
David Miliband | 467 c406 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a special interest in Afghanistan and, on that basis, I am happy to give way ...
Michael Connarty | 467 c496 (Link to this contribution) I certainly commend the Secretary of State for the investment in accommodation, but I was waiting fo...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c497 (Link to this contribution) I was using the generic word ““post”” to include parcels. I am sorry if I have inadvertently misled ...
Liam Fox | 467 c488-9 (Link to this contribution) General Dannatt said that we had no reserves for the unexpected, which is one of the main problems t...
David Miliband | 467 c489 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has made some quite stark points about the legal position in respect of the very ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 467 c494 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for approaching a serious matter in a serious way, but will ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c494 (Link to this contribution) I am prepared to look at any suggestion that may be made as to how to improve the way the message is...
Gerald Howarth | 467 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with what the Secretary of State has said about that matter, but I draw to his atte...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) I will look at that individual incident, if the hon. Gentleman can provide me with the detail after ...
Liam Fox | 467 c489-91 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for his intervention. However, I think that it is clear from ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c491-2 (Link to this contribution) As many right hon. and hon. Members have reminded us—and we bear being reminded of it—yesterday was ...
Greg Hands | 467 c492 (Link to this contribution) Surely the Secretary of State must realise that all his complaints and protestations are caused by h...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c492-4 (Link to this contribution) We know the hon. Gentleman's position because he helpfully signed an early-day motion that explains ...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) Is it on the issue of publicity because I want to move on?
Lord Benyon | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c496 (Link to this contribution) I am only part-time. The hon. Gentleman suggested that there had been a cut in the investment and a...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c495-6 (Link to this contribution) If that is the hon. Gentleman's justification for the rates of pay for the lowest paid members of th...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c496 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is only the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) I fully intend to deal with the issue of DESO, but I will deal with it in my own time, if the hon. G...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time on the issue.
Lord Benyon | 467 c495 (Link to this contribution) Before the Secretary of State leaves the remarks of my hon. Friend the Member for Mid-Sussex (Mr. So...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c472 (Link to this contribution) I want to take my hon. Friend back to her previous subject—that of the importance of free trade unio...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 467 c472-3 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree and I hope that Opposition colleagues, rather than laughing at something that is he...
Greg Hands | 467 c468 (Link to this contribution) I recognise the great expertise that my hon. Friend has gained during his four visits to Afghanistan...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c467-8 (Link to this contribution) That lies at the crux of what I am saying. I know that the Secretary of State is in a very difficult...
Greg Hands | 467 c467 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern about the complete lack of new Government thinking in either Af...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c466-7 (Link to this contribution) The shadow Minister exemplifies why he is on the Front Bench. It is clear that this Government have ...
Sarah McCarthy-Fry | 467 c469-72 (Link to this contribution) I would say that it was a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bournemouth, East (Mr. Ellwood), an...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c469 (Link to this contribution) I will not, because I am running out of time. The area that I visited is on the main A1 arterial ro...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c468 (Link to this contribution) I believe that that is a matter for review. I also believe that we are at a pivotal point. If we do ...
Robert Walter | 467 c488 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has struck on an important point. Will he tease out from the Secretary of State wheth...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c477-8 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that, in addition to the settlements, the so-called security wall or barri...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c480-2 (Link to this contribution) The Gracious Speech by Her Majesty the Queen outlined the direction and the plans of this Government...
Martin Linton | 467 c478-9 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, the settlements and the closures are closely interlinked. Contrary to the opinion of many in...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c482-3 (Link to this contribution) The commitment to a referendum was based on the constitutional treaty that was originally agreed. Si...
Greg Hands | 467 c482 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is extolling the virtues of the treaty, but if it is so excellent why is he not w...
Liam Fox | 467 c486-8 (Link to this contribution) It is appropriate and right at this time of year to remember the sacrifices made on our behalf by th...
Adrian Bailey | 467 c483-6 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly pleased to take part in this debate on the Gracious Speech in respect of defence. ...
Greg Hands | 467 c473-6 (Link to this contribution) I want to address my comments entirely to the proposed EU reform treaty. As I outlined at length in ...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c454 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Frank Cook | 467 c454 (Link to this contribution) I would rather get to my other point, if I may, which relates to the EU reform treaty and the issue ...
Lord Risby | 467 c449-52 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes his point well, and I absolutely agree with him. In the next fortnight, Mohame...
Frank Cook | 467 c452-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Gracious Speech, although I was unable to hear it first hand because I was representin...
David Crausby | 467 c448-9 (Link to this contribution) The operation in Basra was certainly very different. History has demonstrated that there has been a ...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c447 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to pursue the point, but I feel that I must, because Basra was, and remains, a British re...
David Crausby | 467 c447 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that the Americans did not have the plan for peace of which they boasted, but I do not b...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c447 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman rightly praises our armed forces, but does he not agree that if our reconstructio...
Mark Hendrick | 467 c465-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be aware that in the last five years of the Conservative Government, the def...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c466 (Link to this contribution) As you heard, Mr. Deputy Speaker, the shouts from the Opposition Benches indicate that circumstances...
Julian Lewis | 467 c466 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a great difference between ending a cold war and embarking o...
Willie Rennie | 467 c459-62 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Brent, North (Barry Gardiner), who has spoken some wi...
Barry Gardiner | 467 c457-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to speak in support of the Loyal Address. I will speak of two islands: Cy...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c465 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Member for Newport, West (Paul Flynn). He knows that we have an awful lot ...
Paul Flynn | 467 c462-5 (Link to this contribution) We have heard speeches today that were wise, rational and intelligent; but we have heard others that...
Robert Walter | 467 c454-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Stockton, North (Frank Cook), who I know has done a t...
Frank Cook | 467 c456 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman like to knit into that thesis the fairly commonly voiced view that at least...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) I will take the hon. Gentleman's intervention in a moment, but before I do so I wish to contrast tho...
Julian Lewis | 467 c498 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State comes back neatly to the point on which I wanted to intervene. Does he not ac...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c498-9 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman needs to be consistent with the logic of his intervention. He should have told th...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c499 (Link to this contribution) I see the hon. Gentleman nod in approval. Obviously, we got the rate of inflation right on both of t...
Tobias Ellwood | 467 c499 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is right to say that a lot of defence spending has gone into Iraq and Afghani...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c499 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has said several times during the debate that there have been failings on the par...
Lord Browne of Ladyton | 467 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to be a channel for that question to be put to the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks....
Mark Hendrick | 467 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, the hon. Member for Woodspring (Dr. Fox) is not willing to say what his party would spend o...
Martin Linton | 467 c476-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak following so many interesting speeches on Afghanistan, such as those of th...
David Miliband | 467 c404-5 (Link to this contribution) If I may continue, I shall come back to my hon. Friend in a minute. I said that I thought that we h...
Greg Hands | 467 c449 (Link to this contribution) Before my hon. Friend moves on from the Laeken declaration, I remind him and the House that only in ...
Lord Risby | 467 c449 (Link to this contribution) We have touched on the fact that a lot of time has been spent talking about the European treaty, and...
Robert Walter | 467 c456-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman helps my point. We would then provide an alternative livelihood to the Afghan pop...
David Miliband | 467 c401 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not able to shed light on those matters. I am sure that the hon. Gentleman can take his que...
David Miliband | 467 c399 (Link to this contribution) I consider it an enormous privilege to open today's debate as Foreign Secretary. My purpose is to se...
David Miliband | 467 c400 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am confident that processes are being taken forward with normal speed. If my right hon. Frien...
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Armed forces Defence Armed conflict Deployment Democracy European Union Iraq EU institutions Foreign policy Referendums Pakistan Terrorism Treaties United Nations Afghanistan NATO Zimbabwe Middle East Darfur Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
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