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UN Security Council Resolution (Libya)

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

525 c611-32 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman puts the point extremely well. I agree that there should be regular statements up...

David Winnick | 525 c620 (Link to this contribution) As someone who has argued all along that any military action should be based on a resolution of the ...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c621 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend very much for his support. On the German attitude, to be fair to the German C...

Christopher Chope | 525 c621 (Link to this contribution) May I also commend my right hon. Friend on his decisive leadership? Why does he think Germany abstai...

Joan Ruddock | 525 c621 (Link to this contribution) May I also congratulate the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary on the action they have taken? ...

Natascha Engel | 525 c620 (Link to this contribution) Given the unpredictability of the outcomes in Libya and the middle east, and given that all actions ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c620 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady asks a very important question. It seems to me that we have to look at the consequence...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 525 c620 (Link to this contribution) I join others in congratulating the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and all the others who hav...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c620 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. A Palestinian leader once said to me, ““If you really ...

Bob Stewart | 525 c622 (Link to this contribution) Speaking as someone who has watched well-armed Bosnian Serb units smash through civilian populations...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c622 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. Obviously, we want the widest alliance possible. I do not thi...

Tony Baldry | 525 c623 (Link to this contribution) One of the factors that caused Gaddafi to abandon his programme of weapons of mass destruction in th...

David Lammy | 525 c623 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Gaddafi forces are advancing, what assessment has the Prime Minister made of civilian...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) The first point I would make to my hon. Friend is how welcome it was that Bosnia was sitting on the ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c622 (Link to this contribution) The answer I give my hon. Friend is that almost every leader in the free world has said Gaddafi need...

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest | 525 c622 (Link to this contribution) Now that the UN has reasserted its authority with this resolution, it is important that Gaddafi is i...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady makes an extremely good point and is absolutely right. I had a very good convers...

Bernard Jenkin | 525 c622 (Link to this contribution) I join my right hon. and hon. Friends in congratulating my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister on h...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c617 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point about the leadership role taken by Nicolas Sarkozy ...

Mike Gapes | 525 c617 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister and those in the Foreign Office, including our excellent diplomats...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his support and for the way in which he put that support in his...

Malcolm Rifkind | 525 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the superb leadership that he and the Foreign Secretary hav...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c617 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. and learned Friend for his support, and I agree that time is now crucial. It i...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c611-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on last night's UN Security Council re...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) Obviously—as the hon. Gentleman knows—we never comment on security and intelligence matters in the H...

Stephen Gilbert | 525 c619 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement and last night's United Nations resolution. I think it is a...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c619 (Link to this contribution) I sometimes want to meet that argument with the answer that the fact that you cannot do the right th...

Jeremy Corbyn | 525 c619 (Link to this contribution) Abuses of human rights and the oppression of civilians are not unique to Libya. They may differ in d...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 525 c618 (Link to this contribution) Yet again, my right hon. Friend has shown a breathtaking degree of courage and leadership. I support...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend puts it extremely well. The aim is clear: to put in place what has been require...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c618 (Link to this contribution) Of course I look very carefully at every decision that we make in defence, and I see it as a persona...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c618 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. Of course there are difficult questions. We are embarked on a diff...

Jeffrey M Donaldson | 525 c618 (Link to this contribution) The Government and the armed forces have our full support in this matter. The Prime Minister mentio...

John McDonnell | 525 c624 (Link to this contribution) I support the freedom struggle of the Libyan people and I am a supporter of the United Nations, but ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c623 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and we are making sure not only that Gaddafi and his i...

Baroness Coffey | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate the Prime Minister. Just yesterday, I voiced my concern that inertia could lead t...

Gerald Kaufman | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman agree that the merit of the operation to liberate Kuwait in 1991 was t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is right to draw the House's attention to what Gaddafi has said. He has said chilling ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to go into too much detail about deployments. However, perhaps I could use this opport...

David Burrowes | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) I too commend the Prime Minister's statement, and his courage and leadership. The Prime Minister wil...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) First, the hon. Gentleman is absolutely right that people in Northern Ireland have every right to re...

David Simpson | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) I join colleagues in congratulating the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary on their success. I...

Nick Boles | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Prime Minister for his singular service over the past few weeks? Will he join me in ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely give the right hon. Gentleman that assurance. It seems to me that we have to learn both...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c631 (Link to this contribution) We should do everything that is necessary to bring about the UN Security Council resolution's conclu...

Sajid Javid | 525 c631 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary for showing world leadership in an hour of ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c631 (Link to this contribution) I can promise my hon. and learned Friend that he will see a summary position of the advice before th...

Stephen Phillips | 525 c631 (Link to this contribution) May I echo the congratulations from throughout the House to my right hon. Friends for the courage th...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend refers to the coalition Government, and let me put on record what strong support I an...

Sam Gyimah | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) May I add my voice to those of many other Members in congratulating the Prime Minister on what he ha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c630 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to make that point. It is not the people who make the decisions w...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. Our military have been involved in several no-fly zones ove...

Mark Reckless | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has informed the House that we are preparing to deploy Tornadoes and Typhoons to ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks a good question. As he knows, in this country, we recognise countries rather tha...

Rehman Chishti | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on obtaining the international, legal humanitarian intervention in...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) I just wanted to ensure in the Cabinet meeting this morning that members could read the UN Security ...

Greg Hands | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary on leading international opini...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c625 (Link to this contribution) The first objective of tomorrow's meeting in Paris is to bring together in person those Arab leaders...

Tom Brake | 525 c625 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has made a credible and convincing case for joint action to protect Libyan civili...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c625 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point. Of course there is a danger of stalemate, as he says. At tha...

Heidi Alexander | 525 c625 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister talks about the need to think about the consequences of our action or inaction. O...

Baroness Bray of Coln | 525 c624 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate the Prime Minister on his spectacularly successful leadership and the amazi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) The encouraging thing is, first, that the Arab League came forward so clearly and asked for a no-fly...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c624 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. What the UN is suggesting is very clear. Paragraph 1"““...

Nick Smith | 525 c627 (Link to this contribution) In the next few difficult months, can we ensure, as well as we can, that we do not damage the Libyan...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c627 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, first, to say that in many ways the easy decisions have been...

William Cash | 525 c627 (Link to this contribution) Time, of course, remains of the essence, and those who are resisting may well need arms rapidly. Par...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c627 (Link to this contribution) I always worry when my hon. Friend mentions the word ““notwithstanding””; a small chill goes up my s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very good point, and we have to consider all of these issues. The point I woul...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point about cluster munitions. We do not use those munitions and we ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c626 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and I will stress again what the International Develop...

Chris Bryant | 525 c626 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the whole House will wish the Prime Minister well as he discharges his duties in rela...

Barry Gardiner | 525 c628 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the UN resolution, but I oppose Britain's military involvement in implementing it. The UN ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c629 (Link to this contribution) Obviously I respect the hon. Gentleman's view, but it seems to me that if we will the end, we should...

Peter Bone | 525 c627 (Link to this contribution) I would like to thank the Prime Minister for coming to the House so early to make this statement. He...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I considered this carefully, and we discussed it at Cabinet this morning. We felt that th...

Mark Tami | 525 c628 (Link to this contribution) What UN resolutions say and what they are subsequently interpreted to say can be very different. Wha...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c628 (Link to this contribution) The point I would make to the hon. Gentleman is that this resolution seems to me to be extremely cle...

David Nuttall | 525 c628 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister for his statement. Recent history has shown that com...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c628 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point. Of course, there is always a case that goes something ...

Richard Ottaway | 525 c617 (Link to this contribution) As one of the doubting Thomases of the past few weeks, I congratulate the Prime Minister on his succ...

Ed Miliband | 525 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. From this side of the House, we welcome last night's U...

Philip Hollobone | 525 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) One of the difficult things about no-fly zones is setting them up in the first place by taking out t...

Richard Burden | 525 c625 (Link to this contribution) I welcome last night's UN resolution; this is not Iraq, but it is an important test of the internati...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c623 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes an extremely good point. It is clear that there have been widespread ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 525 c632 (Link to this contribution) It is not necessary, to carry out the operations that we are considering, to have an aircraft carrie...

Mark Field | 525 c626 (Link to this contribution) Although today's statement has understandably focused on military and diplomatic issues, a huge huma...

Subjects

Demonstrations Armed conflict Human rights Humanitarian aid Politics and government Violence UN resolutions Sanctions Civil disorder Libya Military intervention UN Security Council League of Arab States Gaddafi, Muammar Ceasefires

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