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Afghanistan

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

721 c1208-21 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

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Afghanistan
Thursday, 11 November 2010
Written questions
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Viscount Slim | 721 c1221 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome what the Minister said and I was very heartened by what the noble Baroness said....

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1221 (Link to this contribution) I cannot for a moment question the wisdom and experience behind that either, except to say that one ...

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Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I cannot say very much, except that the earlier setbacks have to some extent been corrected and I be...

Lord Hamilton of Epsom | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can my noble friend confirm that the northern tribes in Afghanistan are getting extremely ...

Lord Wright of Richmond | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, is the Minister able to tell the House anything about progress or otherwise on controlling...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1220-1 (Link to this contribution) I am absolutely sure that that assessment is expert, well informed and right. It is our desire and i...

Lord King of Bridgwater | 721 c1220 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, does my noble friend recognise that the Statement that he has made is very grave? The whol...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1220 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must agree with the experienced noble Lord about the regional significance. On how you g...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 721 c1219-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for the Statement and for the regularity of Statements to come. Does ...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1219 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I can certainly assure the noble Lord on that. We would watch that very carefully indeed. ...

Lord Judd | 721 c1219 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on talks with the Taliban, there is a very delicate balance to be struck as regards precon...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1218-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a yes and no sort of answer. It is certainly true that Taliban extremists have relations with,...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1217 (Link to this contribution) I wholly agree with the noble Lord: that must be right. The squeeze is on al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. I...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 721 c1216 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister take the opportunity to reject the idea that has been advanced by at least one pro...

Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 721 c1217 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will pick up on the point made by the noble Baroness, Lady D’Souza, about negotiations w...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1217-8 (Link to this contribution) I will tell my noble friend a bit more about the Russians in a moment. First, I will deal with the o...

Lord Rowlands | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Wright of Richmond | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Judd | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords—

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Rowlands, has tried several times to ask a question.

Lord Rowlands | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, can the Minister elaborate a bit further on the statement that the area under the control ...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1218 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the answer is 14 provinces.

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1214-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness has posed a series of extremely well informed and penetrating questions...

Baroness D'Souza | 721 c1216 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and say how much I welcome these qu...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1208-11 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, with the leave of the House I will now repeat a statement made earlier today by my right h...

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 721 c1212-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement and for the very helpful detail contained...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 721 c1216 (Link to this contribution) On the second point, I beg the noble Baroness's indulgence. Did she ask whether there were serious d...

Subjects

Armed forces Corruption Development aid Elections Police Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Training Afghanistan Military aid ISAF

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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