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Ministerial statement on Monday, 23 June 2008, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Malloch-Brown.


Zimbabwe: Elections

Lords statement on the elections in Zimbabwe.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
702 c1253-64 
Session
2007-08
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1261 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Blaker, deserves some of the commendations that I have received today...
Lord Alton of Liverpool | 702 c1261 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I take the Minister back to two questions that the noble Lord, Lord Howell of Guildfor...
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Lord Acton | 702 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my compliments to those offered by the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Crosby, and ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, more than 200 international observers have arrived in the country. Some of them are expect...
Lord Blaker | 702 c1260-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there is one person who, by virtue of his position in his own country and its geographical...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend. Rarely has a Minister received so many congratulations w...
Lord Brougham and Vaux | 702 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the radio this morning, the Minister said that Australia had expelled the children of o...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her kind remarks. I am sure she has noticed that Mr Mandela’s ...
Lord Shutt of Greetland | 702 c1260 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, last week we heard about election observers who were lined up to be sent to Zimbabwe, and ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one of the proposals we shall make to the EU is that we should adopt a similar regime of s...
Baroness Jay of Paddington | 702 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Baroness, Lady Williams, in congratulating the Minister on his forceful l...
Lord Elystan-Morgan | 702 c1258-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does the Minister not agree that, although we speak of Mugabe as the author of this outrag...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1259 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I affirm that everyone in Britain feels that sense of moral responsibility and desire to s...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1257-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for her first remarks. I say to her and to the noble Lord, Lord...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 702 c1255-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for repeating the Statement on Zimbabwe, a subject on which ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1253-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place on the s...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 702 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will do so. I want particularly, as we celebrate refugee week, to commend the statement ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1261-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the first point, we are trying to follow the fast-changing developments in Harare. I ca...
Lord Kilclooney | 702 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, earlier today the Prime Minister said that no one should recognise the regime in Zimbabwe....
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord makes an extremely good point. It is a reason why—as noble Lords may rememb...
Lord Lea of Crondall | 702 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the last point, about the relationship between the Security Council and the various mem...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1262 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let us be clear: in the case of Darfur and Sudan a similar path had to be followed for ICC...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 702 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, join noble Lords in welcoming the Statement. I also wish to record my recognition ...
Lord Bach | 702 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt my noble friend, but I wonder whether he could come to his questio...
Earl of Caithness | 702 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, can the Minister confirm that there are now more Chinese than British nationals in ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1263 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that the noble Earl is right: there are certainly more Chinese than British citi...
Lord Bach | 702 c1264 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, my Lords, but questions have to end now. The 20 minutes are up.
Lord Malloch-Brown | 702 c1264 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I confirm to my noble friend Lord Morris that we will look into this to see what can be do...
Baroness Williams of Crosby | 702 c1256-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made in another place. Before I comment o...
Subjects
Elections Harassment Politics and government Violence Torture African Union Zimbabwe UN Security Council ZANU-PF Southern African Development Community Movement for Democratic Change
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