Ministerial statement on Monday, 1 February 2010, in the House of Lords, led by Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead.

Afghanistan Conference and Yemen Meeting

Lords statement on the Afghanistan conference that took place on 28 January and the Yemen meeting the previous day.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 717 c24-36
Session: 2009-10
Department: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee: House of Lords chamber
Proceeding contributions: Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 717 c29-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement. We are all conscious this week that we a...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their questions and contributions to what is clearly an extremely ...; Lord Anderson of Swansea | 717 c32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have questions on Afghanistan. Russia has been extremely helpful in terms of overflying ...; Lord Howell of Guildford | 717 c27-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister very much for repeating this admittedly pretty long Statement. I take...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c24-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House, I shall repeat a Statement made earlier today by my right hon...; Earl Attlee | 717 c36 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall follow on from the question of my noble friend Lord Marlesford. We know that the A...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c36 (Link to this contribution) I think I may have to write to the noble Earl with the answer to that question.; Viscount Slim | 717 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is good that we support the Afghan army, but there is a danger that we in the West rath...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Viscount, but I point out that our forces are in Afghanistan to prevent the return...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c35 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend. I am keen to state the extreme importance of the European Union in these ma...; Lord Soley | 717 c34 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps my noble friend would agree with me that the recent holding back of the attack on central Ka...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c34 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord. I point out that answering Questions is often not possible, not because the ...; Lord Marlesford | 717 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Statement by the Foreign Secretary seemed to be a mixture of depressingly real facts a...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c33 (Link to this contribution) I thank the noble Lord. As someone who is also an ex-teacher, I very much value his point about the ...; Lord Maginnis of Drumglass | 717 c33 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the noble Baroness for repeating the Statement. I raised this issue on 19 ...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend. I understand that Russia has engaged seriously and consistently with the pr...; Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead | 717 c36 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all this will need to be led by the Afghan Government, because it is their initiative that...; Lord Lee of Trafford | 717 c36 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may follow up an area of questioning from the noble Lord, Lord Howell, which—I say this in...
Subjects: Army Corruption Debts written off International assistance International Monetary Fund Local government Police Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Terrorism Training Security Sanctions Afghanistan Yemen al Qaeda Conferences Taliban
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Afghanistan Conference and Yemen Meeting

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