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Pakistan and Kenya

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

470 c21-38 

Session

2007-08

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2008-0018
Monday, 7 January 2008
Deposited papers
House of Commons
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

David Miliband | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) Yes. I would like to know where the hon. Gentleman thinks that DFID is not fulfilling an agenda that...

Crispin Blunt | 470 c37 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister, on Kenya, has used expressions such as ““these are the objectives I wish to see”...

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David Miliband | 470 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to agree that we should always be careful about our language and our actions while recogn...

Julian Lewis | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) Given the ambiguous credentials of Pakistani intelligence agencies, to which my hon. Friend the Memb...

David Miliband | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) At both ministerial and official level, discussions were held about Mrs. Bhutto's sense of security ...

Patrick Mercer | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is very aware of the desire of al-Qaeda and similar organisations to inflict m...

David Miliband | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) It is good that the hon. Gentleman raises that matter, which was raised on the two previous occasion...

Lord Bellingham | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) If an EU monitoring commission finds that the presidential elections were rigged, does the Foreign S...

David Miliband | 470 c38 (Link to this contribution) Sanctions are only but always justified when they have a clear objective and contribute to it. It is...

Jeremy Corbyn | 470 c35 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary rightly drew attention to the rising and widespread growth of inequality in Ke...

David Miliband | 470 c35 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises a really important point, which I have discussed regularly with the high c...

David Miliband | 470 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to this matter, and I am pleased that he does so. Yes, I d...

Tobias Ellwood | 470 c36 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State talks about combating terrorism, but fails to mention the one thing that link...

David Miliband | 470 c36 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not need to find division across the House on that point. He will have heard...

Sally Keeble | 470 c36 (Link to this contribution) On Kenya, how will my right hon. Friend, who said that it is down to Kenyans to decide, and the inte...

David Miliband | 470 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has spent time in Kenya and has good contacts there. In answer to an earl...

Hugh Robertson | 470 c37 (Link to this contribution) While nobody would underestimate the difficulty of protecting any democratic politician, is it not c...

David Miliband | 470 c37 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I am concerned about the ability of terrorists to strike at the heart of Pakistan, not onl...

Jim Sheridan | 470 c37 (Link to this contribution) It is not often that I agree with the comments or views of the hon. Member for Bethnal Green and Bow...

Ann Winterton | 470 c33 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the instability in Pakistan following recent tragic events and the need for security...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 470 c35 (Link to this contribution) I join the Foreign Secretary in his words of condemnation of the violence in Kenya and in Pakistan a...

David Miliband | 470 c35 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. We can best support the open media that she and I support by mak...

David Miliband | 470 c34 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the hon. Gentleman is right. The international community cannot get into the situation of...

Shailesh Vara | 470 c34 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Foreign Secretary on the matter, raised by the shadow Foreign Secretary, of those wh...

David Miliband | 470 c34 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has spoken powerfully and completely correctly about the memorial that needs to...

Gerald Kaufman | 470 c34 (Link to this contribution) I mourn Benazir Bhutto, who was my friend. Is my right hon. Friend aware that in her final greetings...

David Miliband | 470 c34 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we follow that issue very carefully on all channels—not just in the aftermath of a terrib...

Pete Wishart | 470 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me associate those on my Bench with the condolences to the Bhutto family. We very much hope that...

David Miliband | 470 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to hear my hon. Friend say that successive Governments have ignored the corruption in Ken...

Gwyneth Dunwoody | 470 c32 (Link to this contribution) It is unfortunate that two situations that are wholly different in kind, except for the element of v...

David Miliband | 470 c32 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that not least through media that are watched both in Britain and in Pak...

David Miliband | 470 c33 (Link to this contribution) I understand and confirm the sense of grief and concern in many Pakistani communities in Britain. Th...

Diane Abbott | 470 c33 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that Britain's Pakistani community is extremely exercised by eve...

David Miliband | 470 c33 (Link to this contribution) Yes; of course, independent electoral commissions that have the confidence of different communities ...

Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 470 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) I represent some 9,000 voters of Pakistani and Kashmiri origin, and many of them have made clear to ...

David Miliband | 470 c31 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point, which was discussed at the NATO Foreign Ministers meeting ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 470 c31 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary was right to say that what we need for Pakistan is free and fair elections, bu...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 470 c24-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for taking the earliest opportunity to make a statement on the situati...

David Miliband | 470 c21-4 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I shall make a statement about recent developments in Pakistan and Keny...

David Miliband | 470 c31 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend raises the key issue. Her experience in Kenya and that of others in the House w...

Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top | 470 c30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right that the people of Kenya are looking to have a Government w...

David Miliband | 470 c31 (Link to this contribution) The short answer to the hon. Gentleman is yes. He will know from what my colleague the Secretary of ...

Tony Baldry | 470 c31 (Link to this contribution) One of the many tragedies of Pakistan is the pathetically small amount of money spent on education—j...

David Miliband | 470 c27 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to confirm that to my hon. Friend, who speaks with authority on these issues from his lon...

David Miliband | 470 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the hon. Gentleman to his new position and look forward to his questions and to our debate...

Hugh Bayley | 470 c27 (Link to this contribution) Kenya needs democracy, not a political fix, because democracy is the way to make leaders accountable...

David Miliband | 470 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the content and tone of his remarks. We wholeheartedly...

Speaker | 470 c29 (Link to this contribution) Order. I must be fair to Back Benchers. I have already made it known that the Liberal Democrat spoke...

Fiona Mactaggart | 470 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as a Member of Parliament who represents a very large Pakistani community and a not insubst...

Ed Davey | 470 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and associate these Benches with both his tribute to...

Subjects

Armed conflict Democracy Elections Humanitarian aid Police Politics and government Pakistan Terrorism Violence Civil disorder EU external relations Assassination Kenya Bhutto, Benazir Kibaki, Mwai Odinga, Raila

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