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NATO Summit

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

519 c23-37 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Ed Miliband | 519 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. As the main part of it focused on Afghanistan, I want ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c23-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the NATO summit in Lisbon, which I ...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c26-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his questions and for the way in which he put them. He is absol...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c28 (Link to this contribution) I think that is possible. The problem has been, as my right hon. and learned Friend well knows—he ha...

Bob Ainsworth | 519 c28 (Link to this contribution) I agree with so much of what the Prime Minister has said, but there is one area about which I contin...

Malcolm Rifkind | 519 c28 (Link to this contribution) While we can warmly welcome the NATO-Russia agreement to co-operate on ballistic missile defence, is...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not see any reason to modify it—that is part of the reason for setting it—but I am confiden...

Tony Lloyd | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister rightly emphasised that NATO is committed to a world without nuclear weapons, if ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c28 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the right question to ask; let me answer it as clearly as I can. I think that the...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Prime Minister again on the deadline? Can he conceive of any circumstances in which ...

Chris Bryant | 519 c33 (Link to this contribution) I warmly congratulate the Prime Minister on raising the matter of Georgia with President Medvedev. W...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c33 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend and I go back years on this issue, to the time when we almost shared an office. At th...

Julian Lewis | 519 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) The new NATO strategic concept approved at Lisbon rightly states that, as long as other countries ha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c33 (Link to this contribution) I take what the hon. Gentleman says very seriously. We are trying to have better relations with Russ...

Rory Stewart | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on setting such a firm deadline for the ceasing of combat operatio...

Dennis Skinner | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) So, to sum up, does the Prime Minister agree that he has done a dodgy deal with Karzai and the Talib...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes me sound terribly busy, anyway. I think I will just leave it at that.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to my hon. Friend, who knows a huge amount about that country—I do not want to give an...

Thomas Docherty | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) Further to the answers given to both my hon. Friend the Member for Motherwell and Wishaw (Mr Roy) an...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) I think it incentivises the Afghan Government to recognise that we are serious about handing over a ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) I should be happy to place that information in the House of Commons Library or write to the hon. Gen...

Andrew Murrison | 519 c33 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister rightly touched on the importance of guaranteeing Afghanistan's northern distribu...

Frank Roy | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) Is it not apparent that the number of trainers for the Afghan police and army is woefully inadequate...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) We are making very good progress in training up the Afghan police and army. We are a little ahead of...

Edward Leigh | 519 c34 (Link to this contribution) To be honest, I have always questioned whether foreign combat troops can ever win a war in Afghanist...

Jeremy Corbyn | 519 c30 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister not agree that the greatest causes of problems in this world are poverty, in...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c30 (Link to this contribution) There has been good progress on that. The UN Security Council resolution on Iranian sanctions was he...

Richard Ottaway | 519 c30 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on the positive outcome of the summit and, in particular, on the f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I am a little bit more optimistic than the hon. Gentleman. The case today is that Afghanistan ground...

Mike Gapes | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister told us that the Afghans are not yet capable of securing their own country from t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) Let me clarify this point. For some time, NATO has wanted a defensive system, partly because of the ...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) Please will my right hon. Friend clarify the extent of the agreement between Russia and NATO on ball...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c29 (Link to this contribution) I can give that assurance, and not just NATO but the G8 has a good programme on that front. That is ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) There was a very lively exchange at the NATO leaders' dinner on this issue. I am a pragmatist, and i...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 519 c32 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister mentioned the EU-NATO partnership and the fact that there had been discussions. T...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c31 (Link to this contribution) There are two elements to the reconciliation process. There is what is called reintegration, at the ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c31 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has served in Afghanistan and knows the country well, and he is completely right. As ...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 519 c31 (Link to this contribution) Like any serviceman or woman who has spent time in Afghanistan, nothing would make me happier than s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c30 (Link to this contribution) Let me be clear about where I think the hon. Gentleman is right and where he is wrong. He is right t...

Bob Russell | 519 c30 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said that every one of the 48 nations in the coalition had reaffirmed its endurin...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c31 (Link to this contribution) In Helmand, there have been very courageous efforts by the Estonians and the Danes, who have fought ...

Geoffrey Robinson | 519 c31 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister aware that there will be widespread support in the country for the deadline—th...

Peter Bone | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) Sometimes the Prime Minister just cannot win. If he sets a deadline, they say that he is encouraging...

Speaker | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) Order. Any Member who was not present at the start of the statement should not expect to be called t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. I think it important for us to send a message to the Turks that, a...

Tony Baldry | 519 c35 (Link to this contribution) Turkey has always been important to the defence of NATO's southern flank, and, given the ongoing con...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c35 (Link to this contribution) The point is that the Taliban have suffered huge reverses in Helmand and southern Afghanistan, parti...

Toby Perkins | 519 c35 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister is right to say that the country has paid a tremendous debt to Afghanistan in ter...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c35 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise that issue, which is a difficult one. Not only has there been an in...

Rehman Chishti | 519 c35 (Link to this contribution) How will the ethnic and regional composition of the Afghan national army and police force be maintai...

Speaker | 519 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Prime Minister and all colleagues for their co-operation.

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c37 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has huge expertise in this area. I think that NATO in Afghanistan did initially suffe...

Julian Brazier | 519 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that no amount of skill and courage by our troops at the sharp end c...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) I discussed that issue with President Obama and others at the G20 summit in the Republic of Korea, b...

Nadhim Zahawi | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister have a chance to discuss with President Obama and others in NATO the very wor...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. NATO was for years focused very much on territorial defence of Eur...

Laura Sandys | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) In the context of NATO reform and NATO into the future, does the Prime Minister see a growing role f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c36 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his support. There is another point to be made. The Taliban trad...

Speaker | 519 c28 (Link to this contribution) Order. Understandably, there is much interest, but there is also pressure on time, so economy, both ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 519 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. If we want to leave behind a secure and stable Afghani...

Subjects

Armed forces Deployment ICT Peacekeeping operations Terrorism Training Security Reform Afghanistan NATO Russia Military aid NATO-Russia Council Cuts

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