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Debate on Monday, 14 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Alistair Burt.

UK Policy on the Middle East

Motion that this House has considered the matter of UK policy on the middle east. Agreed on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
511 c639-80 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Stephen Phillips | 511 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you very much, Mr Deputy Speaker. I am, of course, grateful to you for the opportunity that yo...
Speaker | 511 c652 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is an important debate, and a large number of right hon. and hon. Members have put their...
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Alistair Burt | 511 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of UK policy on the middle east." May I sa...
Alistair Burt | 511 c642 (Link to this contribution) I ask my hon. Friend to give me a moment. In the long term, all those partnerships will flourish if...
Alistair Burt | 511 c641 (Link to this contribution) We very much welcome the kick-start that the proximity talks pointed to a few months ago. President ...
Jo Swinson | 511 c641 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way and welcome what he has said about support for a two-state solut...
Alistair Burt | 511 c641 (Link to this contribution) I shall take only one more intervention at this stage, then I shall make progress; otherwise, the re...
Emily Thornberry | 511 c640 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman believe that the proposed Israeli inquiry into the terrible events of 31 May...
Alistair Burt | 511 c640 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way, first, to the hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry).
Alistair Burt | 511 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her inquiry. We have had a lot of conversations, both with the Americans a...
Alistair Burt | 511 c640 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a point that almost immediately illustrates the complexity of the area. Whateve...
Alistair Burt | 511 c640 (Link to this contribution) The first voice that I heard was that of my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon and Billericay (Mr B...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to your new role, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I congratulate the Under-Secretary of State for ...
Alistair Burt | 511 c645 (Link to this contribution) No, because I am now pushing the time limit that I set myself. To be fair to other hon. Members and ...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to that, but I believe that this country and the international community should give th...
Andy Slaughter | 511 c645 (Link to this contribution) Will the Under-Secretary give way?
Alistair Burt | 511 c645 (Link to this contribution) My travel itinerary is already starting to look interesting, but I appreciate any new opportunities ...
Tobias Ellwood | 511 c645 (Link to this contribution) I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It seems to fit you perfectly and I do not know why ...
Alistair Burt | 511 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) No, my hon. Friend intervened earlier. I repeat that I am pressed for time, and I need to get my hon...
Alistair Burt | 511 c643 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. I am conscious that there is one more intervention to come. If I am to stick to what...
Richard Burden | 511 c643 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Alistair Burt | 511 c643-4 (Link to this contribution) I will proceed, if I may. We remain resolved to address these concerns through a twin-track process...
Jeremy Corbyn | 511 c644 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Under-Secretary for giving way and compliment him on his new position. I endorse his com...
Alistair Burt | 511 c642 (Link to this contribution) I ask my hon. Friend to wait a moment. By working with the key countries in the middle east and the...
Alistair Burt | 511 c643 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman might reasonably submit that that is a question for the UN. In this particu...
Denis MacShane | 511 c643 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Minister to his job. There is nothing in his speech so far that I would disagree with....
Gerald Kaufman | 511 c655 (Link to this contribution) Although we are discussing a grave subject, may I say what a pleasure it is to speak in the House wi...
Louise Ellman | 511 c655 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Gerald Kaufman | 511 c655-6 (Link to this contribution) If my hon. Friend will allow me, I will give way if I have time before I finish. Israel ignores int...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it is responsible to enter into a running commentary on the situation in Iran. W...
Malcolm Rifkind | 511 c652-5 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate you on your appointment, Mr Deputy Speaker. I also commend my hon. Friend the Ministe...
Julian Lewis | 511 c658 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for giving way, and may I also say what a pleasure it is to see an alumnu...
Stephen Williams | 511 c658 (Link to this contribution) I am certainly not going to deny that part of what is taking place is self-inflicted. Obviously, the...
Robert Halfon | 511 c658 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Jeremy Corbyn | 511 c648-9 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that a good step forward would be if Israel released the substantial numbe...
Richard Ottaway | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that he would not achieve his fifth point unless he got a resolution ...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a perfectly common-sense perspective. As all hon. Members know, although sett...
Simon Hughes | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Gentleman for the work he did as a Minister and for his clear statements t...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with the hon. Gentleman. One lesson we should have learned from a long history of c...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c649-51 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend in the sense that as long as that remains Hamas's position, it is inconc...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 511 c651 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that the world would not stand by and let Iran develop nuclear weapons. What...
Louise Ellman | 511 c649 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that Hamas, with its view that eliminating the state of Israel is a religi...
Ian Jnr Paisley | 511 c675 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady recognise that equally the Government should apply pressure to Hamas to ensure th...
Emma Reynolds | 511 c674-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you for calling me to speak, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I congratulate you on your new position. Lik...
Richard Burden | 511 c665-7 (Link to this contribution) I add my welcome to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to your new position. Just as the right hon. Member for ...
Speaker | 511 c667 (Link to this contribution) Order. In calling the next Member, I remind colleagues that the convention of the maiden speech appl...
Andy Slaughter | 511 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, and welcome you to the Chair. Before making my brief r...
Simon Hughes | 511 c671 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the hon. Gentleman agrees that although we understand the careful wording of what our Go...
Andy Slaughter | 511 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention. Those who heard the response of the Israeli Prime Minister's of...
Bob Blackman | 511 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) Many congratulations to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, on your elevation to your current position, some 30...
David Ward | 511 c673 (Link to this contribution) My understanding is that the Goldstone inquiry was independent, and that it was rejected by Israel b...
John Stanley | 511 c664-5 (Link to this contribution) Mr Deputy Speaker, I share the pleasure of the House at seeing you in the Chair, loss though you wil...
David Burrowes | 511 c660 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady visit Egypt in order to understand from the Egyptians why they have not fully ope...
Sandra Osborne | 511 c660-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not underestimate the danger of Hamas, but the reality is that Hamas is part of the equation, w...
Stephen Williams | 511 c658-9 (Link to this contribution) I have fewer than 40 seconds left, so I am not going to give way again. My final point is about pol...
Sandra Osborne | 511 c659-60 (Link to this contribution) I also welcome you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to your new position and wish you the best of luck. The hon....
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 511 c662 (Link to this contribution) No; as a lawyer, I have, in my time, done international law, and I do not consider that any of this ...
Louise Ellman | 511 c662-4 (Link to this contribution) I, too, congratulate you on your very well deserved position, Mr Deputy Speaker. The death of nine ...
Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 511 c661-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Deputy Speaker. I declare my interest: I am interested ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 511 c662 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman acknowledge that the incident took place in international waters, that...
Louise Ellman | 511 c664 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but there is very little time left. Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, said on...
Alistair Burt | 511 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) No. Friends of Israel, in the House and beyond, will no doubt reflect on the words of my right hon....
Alistair Burt | 511 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to welcome you to your seat, Madam Deputy Speaker, on this, my first opportunity to...
Yasmin Qureshi | 511 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I was going to say something very different when I started listening to the debate, but after hearin...
Nick Boles | 511 c675-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. May I, too, welcome you to the Chair? You look very fine in it. I wel...
Emma Reynolds | 511 c675 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more with my hon. Friend. I regret the fact that there have not been elections in ...
John Baron | 511 c640 (Link to this contribution) In congratulating my hon. Friend on his appointment, I refer him to the proverb, "To every man with ...
Sandra Osborne | 511 c648 (Link to this contribution) How optimistic is my hon. Friend that the Fayyad plan to build a Palestinian state within two years ...
Alistair Burt | 511 c644 (Link to this contribution) This country has consistently asked Israel to join the non-proliferation treaty as a non-weapons-hol...
Stephen Williams | 511 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by saying that it is nice to see you in your new place, Mr Deputy Speaker? The Minister...
Ivan Lewis | 511 c649 (Link to this contribution) We need to take each case on its merit, and look at whether any of those individuals committed crimi...
Bob Blackman | 511 c673-4 (Link to this contribution) The state of Israel rejected the inquiry as being biased and unfair. The reality is that the British...
Subjects
Iraq Foreign relations Nuclear weapons Israel Palestine Iran Middle East Peace negotiations Gaza Occupied territories League of Arab States
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