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Debate on Thursday, 17 March 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was Douglas Alexander.

North Africa and the Middle East

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of North Africa and the Middle East.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
525 c494-583 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 525 c494 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the Foreign Secretary to open the debate, I remind Members of the House that in view o...
Alistair Burt | 525 c578-83 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Liverpool, West Derby (Stephen Twigg) for his contribution, which has be...
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Stephen Twigg | 525 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very fair point. Members on both sides of the House have referred to this mat...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 525 c569 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that it is very important not to confuse the Iranian people with the Irani...
Bob Blackman | 525 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) The situation in the middle east and north Africa is the most challenging and tumultuous for more th...
Neil Carmichael | 525 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) I cannot, because we have only five minutes left, and I know my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow Ea...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c577 (Link to this contribution) The one thing that most of those countries do have in common is that they have been the recipient of...
Stephen Twigg | 525 c575-7 (Link to this contribution) Last month I visited Israel and the west bank, and I refer hon. Members to my relevant entry in the ...
Stephen Phillips | 525 c570-2 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Harlow (Robert Halfon), and to ha...
Robert Halfon | 525 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an incredibly important point. I agreed with much of his speech. The Iranian pe...
Neil Carmichael | 525 c573 (Link to this contribution) This has been a timely and excellent debate, and Members on both sides of the House have made valuab...
David Winnick | 525 c569 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman condemn the settlements in the occupied territories and agree with the UN re...
Robert Halfon | 525 c569 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree, actually. I believe in a two-state solution, and I believe that some of the west...
Robert Halfon | 525 c567-9 (Link to this contribution) One of the reasons we need to have this debate today is that recent events have shown that Governmen...
Bob Stewart | 525 c567 (Link to this contribution) I have so little time that I will not. If we want to help the Libyan people, we must do something v...
Martin Horwood | 525 c567 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Bob Stewart | 525 c566-7 (Link to this contribution) I shall not take another intervention from the hon. Lady. I was generous because she gave way to me....
Bob Stewart | 525 c566 (Link to this contribution) We are not planning a war; we are trying to stop Libyans dying. My mission in Bosnia was to stop peo...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c566 (Link to this contribution) And everyone else as well. I was interested that the hon. Gentleman said, ““I don't know,”” when my...
Bob Stewart | 525 c566 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the hon. Lady because she gave way to me.
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c562 (Link to this contribution) But that is not right, because if the test is whether a humanitarian disaster is taking place or whe...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c562-3 (Link to this contribution) I just want to deal with my next point. I was not planning to talk about Palestine, but I shall do ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c563 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend acknowledge that wars are awful, invasion is awful and occupation is awful and t...
Christopher Pincher | 525 c560 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks ““What is a no-fly zone?””. That is exactly the question that should be asked. D...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c560-1 (Link to this contribution) We are getting into the weeds here. We need to step back and consider the creation of a no-fly zone ...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c561-2 (Link to this contribution) I, like all other Members of the House, am pleased at events in Tunisia and Egypt, and I welcome the...
Bob Stewart | 525 c562 (Link to this contribution) The answer to the hon. Lady's rhetorical question is that we can do only what we can do. We would li...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c563-4 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. We do not have to look far afield—we need merely to look to Ireland, with all its ...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c564 (Link to this contribution) I happened to spend two years working in Kosovo after the armed conflict and after the Serbian bombi...
Denis MacShane | 525 c564 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentioned Robin Cook and I served with him as a Parliamentary Private Secretary for a...
Bob Stewart | 525 c566 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but the answer is that I do not know. I would like ...
Bob Stewart | 525 c565-6 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my hon. Friend. Gaddafi has unreliable forces, so he needs to use mercenarie...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c566 (Link to this contribution) What happens at the point when the opposition forces in Libya ask for something beyond a no-fly zone...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c565 (Link to this contribution) I hesitate to interrupt my hon. Friend, who is making a powerful speech, but does he agree that Gadd...
Damian Collins | 525 c564 (Link to this contribution) I think the point being made by the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane) was that there was...
Yasmin Qureshi | 525 c564 (Link to this contribution) A number of people in this country, even at that time, did not want to go into Kosovo. One might say...
Laura Sandys | 525 c548-50 (Link to this contribution) My mind has been expanded by many people's contributions today. We have looked at the situation in t...
William Bain | 525 c547-8 (Link to this contribution) There is a range of views on this, and we should proceed very carefully and in full recognisance of ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 525 c550-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for South Thanet (Laura Sandys), who put her finger on th...
Rory Stewart | 525 c544-5 (Link to this contribution) I disagree very strongly and I think that in 10 to 20 years' time, the right hon. Gentleman will hav...
Rory Stewart | 525 c545-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for those comments. The last thing that I, or any of us, want is to be starry-...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 525 c545 (Link to this contribution) I take absolutely no issue with the hon. Gentleman's comment that it is our political and moral duty...
Bob Stewart | 525 c547 (Link to this contribution) A no-fly zone did not stop what happened in Srebrenica—I was there earlier than that—but the no-fly ...
William Bain | 525 c546-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in the debate and to follow the interesting and thought-provoking speech m...
William Cash | 525 c547 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman realise what he has just said? I think that he said that we should not arm t...
William Bain | 525 c547 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, and one I will refer to later in my remarks. We ought ...
Denis MacShane | 525 c558 (Link to this contribution) If it is any consolation to the hon. Gentleman, he gets an extra minute by giving way to me. In some...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c558 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Rotherham (Mr MacShane), who always brings an i...
Jonathan Reynolds | 525 c554 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making an admirable speech, and I support a lot of what he says. He made an in...
Paul Maynard | 525 c552-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. I have listened carefully to all the contributions so far,...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 525 c552 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman, because he allows me to correct the impression I might be givin...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c552 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a powerful case about something that we are only starting to understand—the ...
Denis MacShane | 525 c556-8 (Link to this contribution) I am a fan of the WFD, but its total income is less than half the going rate for a banker's bonus—[I...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 525 c556 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend also recognise the work of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy? Its f...
Denis MacShane | 525 c555-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Paul Maynard). Of cour...
Paul Maynard | 525 c554-5 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting point. There is a wider one though, which is that the nature of the electoral...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c558-60 (Link to this contribution) First, I am aware of where the US now stands and, secondly, I am not attacking anyone, but simply as...
David Winnick | 525 c539 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to my hon. Friend—what he has said is very kind—but in view of what the hon. Memb...
David Winnick | 525 c537 (Link to this contribution) Israel, and those who support it, often refer to their wish for two states, but I do not see how tha...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c539 (Link to this contribution) This is a very important and valuable debate, in which a wide range of opinions have been expressed....
Matthew Offord | 525 c537-9 (Link to this contribution) We have certainly heard some interesting contributions in the debate today. Unfortunately, the previ...
David Winnick | 525 c535 (Link to this contribution) I want to comment on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but first on north Africa I want to say that I...
Martin Horwood | 525 c534-5 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure what I am supposed to say to that, except that I have already said that I support a re...
David Winnick | 525 c535-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course there are differences, and no matter how non-democratic Bahrain is, I am not suggesti...
Rory Stewart | 525 c535 (Link to this contribution) May I politely suggest to the hon. Gentleman that the answer depends on the difference between Bahra...
Denis MacShane | 525 c534 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman aware that on 17 February I called on the Foreign Secretary to"““agree to a wi...
Denis MacShane | 525 c544 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a fascinating speech. Frankly, the comparisons with 1989 are wrong, bec...
Rory Stewart | 525 c542-4 (Link to this contribution) This debate is, of course, an extraordinary phenomenon. We have been stuck in intervention for the p...
Denis MacShane | 525 c540 (Link to this contribution) On 17 February, the Foreign Secretary said that the UK"““would strongly oppose any interference in t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c540 (Link to this contribution) I would expect nothing less, but I should have loved to have it before the debate so that I could ha...
Alistair Burt | 525 c540 (Link to this contribution) I will not give the answer quite yet, but I signed off the question this morning, and it is therefor...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c539 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the Minister immediately so that he can give me the answer to my question.
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c539 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that I have helped to perpetuate the sense of equality that we are observing this afternoo...
Gerald Kaufman | 525 c526-7 (Link to this contribution) John Major, but Margaret Thatcher was also involved. In the same way, action not words dealt with t...
Louise Ellman | 525 c527 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Gerald Kaufman | 525 c527-8 (Link to this contribution) I will proceed for a moment. I think I can anticipate the kind of thing my hon. Friend would say if ...
Roger Gale | 525 c528-9 (Link to this contribution) I should like to touch briefly on matters relating to Libya, and then, as chairman of the all-party ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c533 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the burden of what the hon. Gentleman says about arms sales and I welcome the suspensio...
Martin Horwood | 525 c533-4 (Link to this contribution) Bluntly, yes—the use of Saudi arms and armour in Bahrain, particularly in the context of today's dis...
Roger Gale | 525 c529-30 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, says ““Quite right””, but his view is...
Louise Ellman | 525 c530-2 (Link to this contribution) In 1993, the current President of Israel, Shimon Peres, wrote a visionary book called ““The New Midd...
Martin Horwood | 525 c532-3 (Link to this contribution) Many of us are inspired by what we have been seeing in the middle east and north Africa in recent we...
Mike Gapes | 525 c521-3 (Link to this contribution) As we look at these events around the world, we must reflect on whether there are historical paralle...
Speaker | 525 c519 (Link to this contribution) Order. This is a well-subscribed debate. There is a 10-minute limit on speeches with the usual injur...
Gerald Kaufman | 525 c526 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Croydon South (Richard Ottaway), with my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford South...
Richard Ottaway | 525 c524-5 (Link to this contribution) In that case it has great force. Joking aside, my hon. Friend makes an important point, but we canno...
Mike Gapes | 525 c525 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept, however, that the ground troops did not go into Iraq in 1991 and 199...
Richard Ottaway | 525 c523-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow my predecessor as Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Leaving asid...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c524 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend's very powerful speech. He mentioned the Prime Minister's...
Martin Horwood | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Douglas Alexander | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will finish the point and then I will be happy to take a fu...
Denis MacShane | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that my right hon. Friend is right. The Former Foreign Secretary, the right hon. and lea...
Denis MacShane | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) And tear gas. The hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood) is part of the coalition Government wh...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to turn to the events that are under way at the moment. I am also conscious that I have n...
Bernard Jenkin | 525 c517-8 (Link to this contribution) Is not the most important issue in this debate the fact that events in Libya appear to be at a turni...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c518 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is continuing the newly established tradition of making a number of points. Let m...
Tony Baldry | 525 c518 (Link to this contribution) Is it not important that one message that is heard by dictators is that once they are indicted by th...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c518-9 (Link to this contribution) That is an important point. Of course, we have seen the trial of Charles Taylor but we have also see...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c517 (Link to this contribution) Let me repeat my point: if there is evidence that British exports have been used in the appalling re...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c515 (Link to this contribution) As so often, not only in recent days, but over many years in this House, the right hon. and learned ...
Matthew Offord | 525 c516 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about a lack of action, but it is the Prime Minister who has provided...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c516 (Link to this contribution) My point is that public declarations of support for a policy need to be matched by private diplomacy...
Matthew Offord | 525 c515 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Douglas Alexander | 525 c515-6 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to make just a little progress. The Foreign Secretary said on 27 February that"““it is ti...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c516 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to give way to the hon. Member for Cheltenham (Martin Horwood).
Martin Horwood | 525 c516 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman that there is a danger of Governments giving mixed messages. I...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c497 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who knows the region and our diplomats there well, is absolutely right; it has been ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) I will come on to Bahrain. I want to make a few general points and then go quickly through each of t...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that for decades British ambassadors throughout the Gulf, pressed by...
Martin Horwood | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary particularly concerned about this morning's news from Bahrain and some of t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c498 (Link to this contribution) It is indeed important to be consistent, but it is also important to couple that—as the hon. Gentlem...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c497-8 (Link to this contribution) Again, I will come on to the situation in Libya. My hon. Friend knows that UN resolution 1970 was pa...
Andrew Love | 525 c498 (Link to this contribution) I look forward to an update on the current situation in the middle east. On the points that the righ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c497 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister speaks to President Obama extremely regularly. The same goes at all levels of the...
William Cash | 525 c497 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend speaks of human rights, but human rights include the right to live as well as t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c494 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of North Africa and the Middle East." Befo...
Denis MacShane | 525 c494-5 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has visited Japan regularly for 30 years—most recently last November—I want to place ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) I agree with part of the last bit of what the hon. Gentleman said. The pace and scale of events are ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) I must be able to get into my speech, but let me give way to a few more hon. Members.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c495 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, and I agree wholeheartedly with his comments, although Da...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with the right hon. Lady. If democracy is able to develop in these countries, it w...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c496 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the Foreign Secretary that there is a thirst for peaceful, constitutional and democrati...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c500 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary accept that economic progress in such countries will be an important butt...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c500-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes, very much so. Again, that brings me to my next point. There are many international organisatio...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c500 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman does not overstate his case. The words that he uses are wholly appropriate to the...
William Cash | 525 c501 (Link to this contribution) In the light of the Prime Minister's attempts to get a no-fly zone—which are greatly appreciated by ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c501-2 (Link to this contribution) I am going to talk about Libya in a moment. What I am talking about now is the long-term approach of...
William Cash | 525 c501 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c501 (Link to this contribution) I did not want to upset my hon. Friend by talking about the European Union, which in this case has a...
Mark Pritchard | 525 c502 (Link to this contribution) First, may I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on his excellent leadership of his Department, given...
Robert Walter | 525 c502 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that the European neighbourhood policy has spent several billion...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c498 (Link to this contribution) I will take two more interventions and then I really must crack on a bit.
Keith Vaz | 525 c498 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary for allowing this intervention. May I take him to Yemen?...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c499 (Link to this contribution) I will come to Yemen in a moment, to which several of my hon. Friends on the Front Bench and I give ...
Tobias Ellwood | 525 c499 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has explained the gargantuan changes taking place across the region. There can ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c499-500 (Link to this contribution) That is a very helpful intervention because it brings me neatly on to the next paragraph of my inten...
Mark Field | 525 c500 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is right that there is a passion for democracy, although I find that this pass...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c500 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quite right that democracy is not just the holding of elections. We are all famili...
Mike Gapes | 525 c500 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned the position of the Iranian Government. Does he share my absolute di...
Malcolm Rifkind | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, for the last time, to my right hon. and learned Friend the former Foreign Secretary...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) It is important for the hon. Gentleman to remember that, thanks to the commendable organisation, imm...
Jim Sheridan | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding the bravery of the diplomatic corps and, indeed, the military in Libya, may I share ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give way to Members to whom I have given way already. In order to be fair to the House, I m...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c506 (Link to this contribution) Financial arrangements will depend on the circumstances and discussions in government, and are secon...
Julian Lewis | 525 c506 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend. Will he confirm whether assessments show that a no-fly zone is likely ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c506 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way only to Members to whom I have not already given way. I really must conclude my spe...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c506 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing holding them back. Yesterday, the US proposed a strengthening of the resolution, wh...
Chuka Umunna | 525 c506 (Link to this contribution) I completely agree that, as far as Libya is concerned, we cannot be bystanders. The Prime Minister h...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) I mentioned Iran's involvement earlier, but I agree with my hon. Friend that there have been many po...
Rehman Chishti | 525 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary, but does he agree that the monarchy in Bahrain has made considerable ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c504 (Link to this contribution) I will give way one more time, to my hon. Friend, before I move on to deal with Libya.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c503-4 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious that many other hon. Members wish to speak, so perhaps I should continue. I want to t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c503 (Link to this contribution) I am not arguing that all the fault is on one side. There have been failures by Israeli and Palestin...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c504 (Link to this contribution) It is important not to think about the issue—I am coming on to Libya in a few moments—in terms of we...
David Winnick | 525 c504 (Link to this contribution) I have absolutely no illusions about the thuggery of Gaddafi, which has been evident since 1969. If ...
Louise Ellman | 525 c503 (Link to this contribution) I certainly recognise all the difficulties that the Foreign Secretary has identified, but does he al...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c502-3 (Link to this contribution) We must not expect the countries that we work with to agree with us or with each other on every sing...
Robert Halfon | 525 c503 (Link to this contribution) Settlements are often cited as a barrier to peace, but does my right hon. Friend acknowledge that Is...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c513-4 (Link to this contribution) As so often, my right hon. Friend speaks with great authority on Yemen. Of course, it was under the ...
Keith Vaz | 525 c513 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly agree with what my right hon. Friend has said, which is much in accordance with wha...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c511-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to address each of the three questions that the hon. Gentleman cunningly asked within tha...
William Cash | 525 c511 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. Gentleman's recitation of the advantages of the EU in the context of trade and inv...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c514-5 (Link to this contribution) May I take the shadow Foreign Secretary back to his expression of disappointment at the tentative na...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c514 (Link to this contribution) A trend seems to be developing whereby those on the Government Benches ask three questions under the...
Robert Halfon | 525 c514 (Link to this contribution) Given what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, does he accept that his Government got it wrong i...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c509-10 (Link to this contribution) I hope my hon. Friend will forgive me if I say that there may be a rather Jesuitical distinction bet...
Denis MacShane | 525 c510 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday a number of Members from all parties met Tunisian Ministers and the Tunisian ambassador, a...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c510-1 (Link to this contribution) Let me continue the recently established tradition of the Foreign Secretary in thanking my right hon...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c507-8 (Link to this contribution) The situation described by my right hon. and learned Friend would indeed be intolerable. That is why...
Malcolm Rifkind | 525 c507 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend told us that a new Security Council resolution might be in the process of being...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c508 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not give way any more. I must be fair to the rest of the House. The draft resolution tha...
Bernard Jenkin | 525 c508 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Bernard Jenkin | 525 c509 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Douglas Alexander | 525 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by associating myself with the Foreign Secretary's expression of support for the people...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c509 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend not accept that settlement building is illegal, end of? Why are we still t...
Douglas Alexander | 525 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am keen to make a little progress, but I shall be happy to take an intervention later. Peace and ...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 525 c519-21 (Link to this contribution) I do not propose to follow the formidable speech of my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary, who ...
Thomas Docherty | 525 c497 (Link to this contribution) I draw the House's attention to my registered interest in this matter. Can the Foreign Secretary tel...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c502 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is a very important point. I certainly want this to be coherently organised with Turkey as...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c503 (Link to this contribution) I fully recognise the often deeply unhelpful role of Iran; I have already referred to that in a diff...
Bob Stewart | 525 c564-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Bolton South East (Yasmin Qureshi) for her speech. I have to say that I ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c540-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware of any such statement, and I wish there was such a statement, because the Gulf Co-ope...
Richard Ottaway | 525 c525-6 (Link to this contribution) I have heard the hon. Gentleman make that point before, and the answer to it is that Saddam Hussein ...
Joan Ruddock | 525 c495 (Link to this contribution) Did the Foreign Secretary notice, as I did, the impressive women-only demonstration in Benghazi yest...
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