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Ministerial statement on Monday, 12 January 2009, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Malloch-Brown.


Gaza

Lords statement on the situation in Gaza.


Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
706 c1023-35 
Session
2008-09
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1033 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, let me say to the noble Baroness, Lady Tonge, that I did say, when repeating the Statement...
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Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1034 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend brings to us all an important observation from her week in the region. Thi...
Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 706 c1034 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, will the Minister not go a little further in relation to the US vote on the resolution and...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1023-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with permission, I shall now repeat a Statement made in another place by my right honourab...
Lord Wright of Richmond | 706 c1030-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I endorse what others have said in thanking the Minister very much for repeating the State...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 706 c1030 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is the turn of the Cross Benches.
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1030 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate only because the logical and military difficulties of what my noble friend prop...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 706 c1028-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we welcome the Government’s Statement and the constructive role that they have taken in dr...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1031 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for his kind words about the British diplomacy that led to Resoluti...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1031-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, obviously in a situation where fatalities are running at something like 100 to one ...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1033 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Earl is correct about the centuries of injustice, for which we all carry our sha...
Earl of Onslow | 706 c1032 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, "““Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of th...
Lord Howe of Aberavon | 706 c1035 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I apologise that I was not present at the outset of these proceedings—all the more so beca...
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 706 c1033-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, may I ask my noble friend about the current political impact of what is going on within th...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 706 c1034 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is the turn of the Cross Benches.
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1034 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in response to the noble Lord’s first point, of course the resolution would have had great...
Lord Howell of Guildford | 706 c1026-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure that we are all very grateful to the Minister for repeating this long, sombre, b...
Baroness Tonge | 706 c1030 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister may know that I was in Gaza—
Lord Campbell-Savours | 706 c1030 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if we are so concerned about conditions in Gaza, why cannot a coalition of forces from the...
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1029-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank both Benches opposite for the support they offered to British policy. I think that...
Bishop of Chelmsford | 706 c1031 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and for the transparent way in which he e...
Baroness Tonge | 706 c1033 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was in Gaza six weeks ago. Now, as a result of the impotence of the international commun...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 706 c1032 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is the turn of the Conservative Party.
Lord Malloch-Brown | 706 c1035 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that there has been a great growth of unity during the past few weeks, as was impl...
Lord Davies of Oldham | 706 c1035 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is the Conservative Party’s turn and I think that the House would probably wish to hear...
Subjects
Armed conflict Casualties Arms trade Humanitarian aid Politics and government Terrorism UN resolutions Israel Palestine Middle East Peace negotiations Gaza Hamas Ceasefires
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