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United States of America

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

487 c366-86WH 

Session

2008-09

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Merron | 487 c383-6WH (Link to this contribution) The EU has implemented those sanctions and has gone beyond them by freezing the assets of more entit...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c386WH (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister agree that it is particularly unhelpful to the so-called special transatlantic rel...

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Baroness Merron | 487 c386WH (Link to this contribution) It is important to say from where the economic challenges come, but perhaps the purpose of this deba...

David Lidington | 487 c383WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm whether the Government are content, even if not happy, with the current su...

Baroness Merron | 487 c382WH (Link to this contribution) No, I cannot confirm that. The Foreign Secretary has said recently that we have undertaken our duty....

Ed Davey | 487 c382WH (Link to this contribution) The Minister has said how much she welcomes the new Administration's commitment to closing Guantanam...

Baroness Merron | 487 c382-3WH (Link to this contribution) I have listened to the hon. Gentleman's comments, but I do not share his views. The Government's pos...

Speaker | 487 c366WH (Link to this contribution) Before I call Mark Pritchard, I wish to put it on the record that I am joint treasurer of the Britis...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c366-7WH (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Olner. I am sure you will not mind me saying that you do an excellent job in that cap...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c367-9WH (Link to this contribution) As always, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. In politics, yes men do not always give the best...

Mike Penning | 487 c367WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is delivering a passionate speech on this country's special relationship with America...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c369WH (Link to this contribution) It is right that the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and even we, as individual politi...

Ed Davey | 487 c369WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful speech, much of which I agree with, but he is in danger of p...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c369-70WH (Link to this contribution) Again, my hon. Friend makes an excellent point. Those NATO members that enjoy the benefits of member...

Mike Penning | 487 c369WH (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the American and British frustration is that so many European countri...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c370-1WH (Link to this contribution) Given your expertise in the matter, Mr. Olner, you will know that Turkey is currently a very dominan...

Speaker | 487 c370WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I have given the hon. Gentleman a bit of leeway, but we are straying rather a long way from A...

Mark Field | 487 c371-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) on securing this important ...

Ed Davey | 487 c376-7WH (Link to this contribution) They are on America, of course, Mr. Olner. My first point regards the foreign policy team that Bara...

Speaker | 487 c377WH (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Gentleman is drawing on my patience.

Ed Davey | 487 c376WH (Link to this contribution) I would be grateful if the hon. Gentleman could show me that statement. Our party passed a policy at...

Speaker | 487 c376WH (Link to this contribution) As long as they are about America.

Ed Davey | 487 c375-6WH (Link to this contribution) On that point there is no difference between the hon. Gentleman's point and mine. The UK ultimately ...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c376WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for giving way again; he has been very generous. I want to be cr...

Ed Davey | 487 c374-5WH (Link to this contribution) Let me be clear: anti-Americanism anywhere is bad. One can be against a policy of a country, but ant...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c375WH (Link to this contribution) I admire the hon. Gentleman's optimism and I hope that it is worthy of the amount of time that he ha...

Ed Davey | 487 c373-4WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) on securing this debate. I agree with...

Mark Field | 487 c374WH (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman therefore concerned about the strands of anti-Americanism in Germany and, to a...

Mark Pritchard | 487 c382WH (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister put on record whether the Government would be prepared, on the request of the Amer...

Speaker | 487 c378WH (Link to this contribution) Order. May I ask the hon. Gentleman to bring his remarks to a conclusion? He has now spoken for long...

Ed Davey | 487 c378WH (Link to this contribution) I will certainly do so, Mr. Olner, as I am keen to hear from my colleagues. I thought that I was doi...

David Lidington | 487 c378-81WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) on securing this debate. A...

Baroness Merron | 487 c381-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) on securing the debate, which is, as ...

Ed Davey | 487 c377-8WH (Link to this contribution) I was drawing on the lessons from the United States, Mr. Olner. It has many lessons for this country...

Subjects

Defence EU enlargement Foreign policy Foreign relations Politics and government Trade USA Turkey Iran EU external relations

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