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EU Council/Afghanistan, India and Pakistan

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

485 c813-31 

Session

2008-09

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Gordon Brown | 485 c819-21 (Link to this contribution) Let me say first of all that I agree with what the right hon. Gentleman says about the losses of lif...

Gordon Brown | 485 c813-7 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the whole House will join me in sending our profound condolences to the family and friends...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 485 c817-9 (Link to this contribution) I join the Prime Minister in paying tribute to our servicemen Marine Damian Davies, Sergeant John Ma...

Gordon Brown | 485 c829 (Link to this contribution) I have to point out to my hon. Friend that 41 countries are involved in this coalition, not just one...

William Cash | 485 c829 (Link to this contribution) How does the Prime Minister justify his endorsement of the deceitful bullying of the Irish people in...

Jeremy Corbyn | 485 c829 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will be aware that it is now more than seven years since coalition forces were se...

Gordon Brown | 485 c829 (Link to this contribution) I understand the difficulties and the challenges that the right hon. and learned Gentleman raises, w...

Malcolm Rifkind | 485 c828-9 (Link to this contribution) When the Prime Minister calls upon the Pakistani Government to do more to destroy the Taliban in the...

Gordon Brown | 485 c828 (Link to this contribution) It is very difficult to say, when we are debating with the Iranians at the moment, whether they will...

Gordon Brown | 485 c828 (Link to this contribution) I agree that we have set aside a huge amount of money for additional helicopters. The timetable for ...

Paul Keetch | 485 c828 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister says that there are more helicopters on the way, but may I ask him the same quest...

Gordon Brown | 485 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) I should point out to my hon. Friend that our strategy is based on complementing the military interv...

Crispin Blunt | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) The evidence is that the position of the international community, including the Karzai Government, i...

Gordon Brown | 485 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) We have regular debates in the House of Commons, such as the debate on defence that took place very ...

Richard Burden | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) In relation to matters discussed at the European Council, does the Prime Minister agree that one of ...

Gordon Brown | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) No, and I would have thought that when the right hon. Gentleman looked at the Irish statement as a r...

Gordon Brown | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) Decisions on the automotive industry will be made by individual countries, which will look at the si...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 485 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend agrees that it is necessary to see through the process of recons...

Gordon Brown | 485 c829 (Link to this contribution) The Irish brought to the EU concerns that they had expressed about the interpretation of the treaty ...

David Heathcoat-Amory | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) As the Irish people are to be made to vote again on the Lisbon treaty on the ground that they made a...

Gordon Brown | 485 c830 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will know, France and other countries have upped their contribution of forces duri...

Keith Vaz | 485 c825 (Link to this contribution) May I warmly welcome the Prime Minister's visit to India so soon after the events in Mumbai? That un...

Gordon Brown | 485 c825 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman cannot deny the evidence of the Taliban working with al-Qaeda. He cannot deny the...

Peter Tapsell | 485 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Prime Minister that several years and four Defence Secretaries ago—the first of who...

Gordon Brown | 485 c823 (Link to this contribution) I should point out to my hon. Friend that the German Government have taken responsibility for the tr...

Gordon Brown | 485 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman's whole theme was that the summit was stronger on words than on action; if ...

Nick Clegg | 485 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, may I add my expressions of sympathy and condolence to the family and friends of Lance-...

Gordon Brown | 485 c824 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right that what used to be called the one-club policy of using only int...

Stuart Bell | 485 c824 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement that the European Council has endorsed the European Commiss...

Gordon Brown | 485 c824 (Link to this contribution) I have said before and I say again—and I think that the country understands this—that Afghanistan is...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 485 c824 (Link to this contribution) As I listened to the Prime Minister reading out the list of reasons why we needed to be in Afghanist...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 485 c827 (Link to this contribution) I understand that the Prime Minister is leading a wider review on Afghanistan within Whitehall. If h...

Gordon Brown | 485 c827 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, because it is important that the number of Afghan troops in Afghani...

Gordon Brown | 485 c827 (Link to this contribution) We did talk about how we can support the Pakistani authorities in many different ways, including hel...

Gordon Brown | 485 c825 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for his comments. I passed on the condolences of the entire Br...

David Drew | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right to ignore the siren voices who are opposing reflationary me...

Gordon Brown | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) There are other means by which the rebuilding of infrastructure is taking place in Afghanistan. The ...

Marquess of Lothian | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) As it now appears from the Irish example that holding a referendum on the Lisbon treaty and voting n...

Gordon Brown | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) I can say that Chancellor Merkel supported all the main principles of the climate change package. Th...

Tony Lloyd | 485 c827 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will know very well that after many years of military rule, Inter-Services Inte...

Gordon Brown | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) We have had this argument in the House on many occasions, and every time that it is put to the vote,...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 485 c828 (Link to this contribution) At this weekend's international conference on Afghanistan in France, the Iranian Foreign Minister di...

Paul Flynn | 485 c827 (Link to this contribution) The previous increase in British troops in Afghanistan two years ago resulted in an increase in the ...

Mike Gapes | 485 c823 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has rightly referred to his efforts to improve the climate between India and Paki...

Elfyn Llwyd | 485 c826 (Link to this contribution) I fully associate myself with the words of condolence expressed by the Prime Minister earlier in his...

Subjects

Armed forces Climate change Deployment Development aid Casualties Carbon capture and storage Elections Investment Energy supply European Union Electoral register Fiscal policy Forests Interest rates Financial markets India Referendums Pakistan Republic of Ireland Treaties Refugees Afghanistan NATO European Council Treaty of Lisbon Official visits

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