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Adjournment debate on Thursday, 3 April 2008, in the House of Commons, led by Mike Gapes. The answering member was Jim Murphy.

Global Security (Russia)

Westminster hall debate on a motion for the adjournment on Russia. (Inc ref to the Foreign Affairs Select Committee second report of session 2007-08, HC 51, and the Government response, Cm 7305.)

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
474 c311-54WH 
Session
2007-08
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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Proceeding contributions
Jim Murphy | 474 c353-4WH (Link to this contribution) It is deeply disappointing that ODIHR was not able to oversee and monitor the elections. Although pa...
David Wilshire | 474 c353WH (Link to this contribution) I share that disappointment. I put a different perspective on it, but I do not stop from criticising...
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Jim Murphy | 474 c349-52WH (Link to this contribution) It is a delight, Mr. Caton, to serve again under your chairmanship. We have had a very good debate a...
Mark Francois | 474 c347-9WH (Link to this contribution) Okay. I still think we have a difference of opinion. I can look the hon. Gentleman in the eye and sa...
Mark Francois | 474 c347WH (Link to this contribution) Certainly no one would ever accuse the hon. Gentleman of groupthink. Nevertheless, given the severit...
Mark Francois | 474 c346-7WH (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr. Caton. I begin by thanking the Foreign Affair...
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c347WH (Link to this contribution) Everyone understands the gravity of the crime that was carried out in London, but there is something...
Bruce George | 474 c339-41WH (Link to this contribution) No, I have too little time in which to speak. I can speak to the hon. Gentleman afterwards. It was ...
Jo Swinson | 474 c342-5WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Affairs Committee's report, and congratulate the Chairman, the hon. Member for...
David Wilshire | 474 c339WH (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Bruce George | 474 c338-9WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Caton. I am sorry that I arrived late. I have only heard three and a half speeches an...
Speaker | 474 c338WH (Link to this contribution) I am going to call you now, Mr. George, but I would be grateful if you concluded your remarks by 4.4...
David Wilshire | 474 c335-7WH (Link to this contribution) I am coming to exactly that point, but may I finish the point I am making? Russia associates rapid c...
David Wilshire | 474 c337-8WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I know, but, similarly, if the hon. Gentleman listens to Russians, they will give him a differe...
Mike Gapes | 474 c337WH (Link to this contribution) In fact, the problem is that the cultural agreement that allows the British Council to operate in Ru...
Lord Horam | 474 c329WH (Link to this contribution) I understand that point, but Norway is not like Ukraine. Ukraine is part of the whole Russian identi...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 474 c329-32WH (Link to this contribution) I find myself, unusually, in a unique position, being practically the only person in the room today ...
David Wilshire | 474 c332-5WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me, Mr. Caton. It is a pleasure to be speaking in the Chamber, rather than sit...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 474 c335WH (Link to this contribution) I am impressed by my hon. Friend's comments. Does he agree that the Yeltsin period brought the Russi...
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c324-6WH (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I follow the hon. Gentleman, but the fact is that there are other conflicts. One ...
Lord Horam | 474 c327WH (Link to this contribution) There is no doubt that, under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, Russia's foreign policy has been muc...
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c323-4WH (Link to this contribution) I like to think that in my small way I contributed to that report, and my frustration is that neithe...
David Wilshire | 474 c324WH (Link to this contribution) I am fascinated and pleased to discover that in the seven years since I left the Committee, nothing ...
John Stanley | 474 c329WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that NATO has been up to the Russian frontiers for many years—notably ...
Lord Horam | 474 c327-9WH (Link to this contribution) The Committee Chairman corrects me. The Committee saw at first hand what is happening in those coun...
Mike Gapes | 474 c323WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an interesting contribution, and he knows that other members of the Committ...
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c322-3WH (Link to this contribution) First, I join my colleagues in paying tribute to the United Kingdom ambassador in Moscow and express...
John Stanley | 474 c319-22WH (Link to this contribution) I note the hon. Gentleman's views. His point is one for the Minister, who will no doubt wish to resp...
David Wilshire | 474 c315-6WH (Link to this contribution) Did the Committee give some thought to the important difference between values and standards when we...
Mike Gapes | 474 c316WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right. There is a difference between abstract values and concrete, specific me...
Mike Gapes | 474 c316-8WH (Link to this contribution) Let me finish this point. Clearly, it is generally accepted and assessed, not only by the British Go...
John Stanley | 474 c318WH (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Ilford, South (Mike Gapes), the Chairman of the Committee...
David Wilshire | 474 c318WH (Link to this contribution) When the Select Committee was taking evidence about international election observers, was attention ...
John Stanley | 474 c318-9WH (Link to this contribution) I think that ODIHR has a pretty good record in its independent monitoring and reporting of democrati...
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c319WH (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to what the right hon. Gentleman said and to the example that he gave. I do not...
Mike Gapes | 474 c315WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend. He makes a point that can be generalised out to a number of other cases...
David Drew | 474 c314-5WH (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. Will he take his point further forward? I have a constituent w...
Mike Gapes | 474 c314WH (Link to this contribution) I agree. As member states of the European Union, we must recognise that Russia will try to divide an...
Mike Gapes | 474 c314WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Our Committee called on the British Government to keep to their ...
Mark Pritchard | 474 c314WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's comment about tone is important. Does he agree that there is a difference betwe...
Eric Illsley | 474 c314WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a very interesting point. The hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) re...
Mark Pritchard | 474 c313WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will know that much of the investment in the energy sector in Russia is foreign, ...
Mike Gapes | 474 c313WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I think that I can take the whole question of energy security a...
Mike Gapes | 474 c314WH (Link to this contribution) In a moment. It was clearly important that at the informal meeting in Slovenia last week, European U...
Mike Gapes | 474 c312-3WH (Link to this contribution) That is a sign that perhaps certain elements in the Russian media have a conspiracy-theory view of e...
Mike Gapes | 474 c311WH (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity to debate the report by the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs entitled ...
Mike Gapes | 474 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, and there is another one, Robert Mugabe, whom we may also need to deal with at some point.
Andrew Mackinlay | 474 c311WH (Link to this contribution) Great judgment by the Foreign Office.
Mike Gapes | 474 c311-2WH (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will allow me to get back to talking about Russia, the situation that we face toda...
David Wilshire | 474 c312WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that certain parts of the Russian media are suggesting that we had to ge...
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