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Libya (London Conference)

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Parliamentary proceeding

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526 c345-65 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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House of Commons chamber

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Deposited Paper DEP2011-0575
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Keith Vaz | 526 c359 (Link to this contribution) At this important and successful conference what discussions took place about the situation in Yemen...

Caroline Lucas | 526 c358 (Link to this contribution) During the debate in this House on Monday of last week, Members on both sides expressed their concer...

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Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c358-9 (Link to this contribution) I will put that in a slightly different way, which is that it is very important to stick to the UN r...

William Cash | 526 c358 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary note that I am glad to hear that the Government have moved somewhat since...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c359 (Link to this contribution) Let me reassure the hon. Gentleman somewhat on that point. He knows that the UN resolution is clear ...

James Morris | 526 c359 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary talked about the British diplomatic mission to Benghazi. Does he agree that Br...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c359 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we absolutely can. We have diplomats and development advisers who are very well placed to do th...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c358 (Link to this contribution) The Government's understanding of the legal position is the one that I have set out: it lies in the ...

Geoffrey Robinson | 526 c358 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for coming to the House so promptly and giving such a full account of ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c357 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend draws attention to one very well-publicised case of recent days that has shocked the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c356 (Link to this contribution) It is very important that it is the people of Libya who determine their own future. That is very cle...

Lord McCabe | 526 c356 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary presents quite an upbeat picture, but what assessment has he made of the Deput...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c356 (Link to this contribution) It is very important that not only in Libya, but in north Africa as a whole, the UK and the European...

Edward Leigh | 526 c356-7 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with the shadow Foreign Secretary and his measured words, and urge extreme caution ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c357 (Link to this contribution) I can assure my hon. Friend that we will not be engaged in imposing any solution on Libya. We will c...

David Winnick | 526 c357 (Link to this contribution) Everyone would like to see the end of Gaddafi and his regime; that is not in question. It is a murde...

Jo Swinson | 526 c357 (Link to this contribution) In light of reports that rape is being used as a weapon of war by Gaddafi's forces, and the appallin...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 526 c363 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to the work that our servicemen and women—the RAF and the Navy—are doing once agai...

Robert Halfon | 526 c363 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his mojo on Libya. Given what my hon. Friends the Members for Becke...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c363 (Link to this contribution) We have had those discussions all along. As my hon. Friend knows, there is a reference to the prosec...

Thomas Docherty | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Foreign Secretary to say something more about the contact group, specifically the si...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c363 (Link to this contribution) The membership of the group will be decided in the coming days. Clearly, as Qatar is hosting the nex...

Rehman Chishti | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) First, may I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the way in which he has handled the overall situa...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) That is a fair question. The mention of Benghazi is a product of the days in which the UN resolution...

Mark Durkan | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) I note that the Foreign Secretary has not told us how much of the Gaddafi hardware now being targete...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) No, that is entirely wrong. I wish the hon. Gentleman could have come along to the conference yester...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c362 (Link to this contribution) I must be clear with my hon. Friend, as I have been with other hon. Members, that our military missi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c361 (Link to this contribution) I will have to be a bit careful with my answer. Clearly, events such as the attack by coalition airc...

Andy Slaughter | 526 c361 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary says that coalition and British forces should follow the letter of the UN reso...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c361 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not accept any of the premises of the hon. Gentleman's question. What we have just seen at ...

Matthew Offord | 526 c361 (Link to this contribution) Although there is widespread agreement that Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy, it is increasingly unli...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c360 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. We have not, so far, been using our armed forces to deliver humanit...

Hugh Bayley | 526 c360 (Link to this contribution) What assessment have the Government made of the risk of civilian casualties if the insurgent forces ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c360-1 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, what we are hoping for and looking for is a genuine ceasefire—that is what the whole worl...

Christopher Pincher | 526 c361 (Link to this contribution) I appreciate that my right hon. Friend might need to be careful with his answer to this question. Gi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c360 (Link to this contribution) Yes. Yemen was not the subject of yesterday's conference, although, as the right hon. Gentleman can ...

Mary MacLeod | 526 c360 (Link to this contribution) May I commend the work that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has done on Libya and the Lon...

Rory Stewart | 526 c364 (Link to this contribution) May I strongly and respectfully disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for Kensin...

Jim Shannon | 526 c364 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. It is clear from television pictures that a humanit...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c364 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes some powerful points. He is right that in looking at a UN resolution one must b...

Daniel Byles | 526 c364 (Link to this contribution) I, too, warmly welcome the news that there have been no civilian casualties so far as a result of th...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c364 (Link to this contribution) We are giving a lot of support. We are giving financial support to organisations that are involved i...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c365 (Link to this contribution) To give a brief answer to conclude, the best way to put it to my hon. Friend is as follows. We retai...

Speaker | 526 c365 (Link to this contribution) We are extremely grateful to the hon. Gentleman, but we have a lot of business today. I call the For...

Speaker | 526 c365 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary and colleagues for their succinctness.

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c353 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with some of my hon. Friend's assumptions. This is not a western intervention but the enf...

Mike Gapes | 526 c353 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this week the Prime Minister told us that the African Union would be represented at the Lond...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c353 (Link to this contribution) I agree that there are those three dimensions, but I believe that it is for other countries to state...

John Baron | 526 c353 (Link to this contribution) Some of us remain of the view that the west's intervention is as much about regime change as it is a...

Jack Straw | 526 c352 (Link to this contribution) May I reinforce the appreciation of my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire Sou...

Bob Ainsworth | 526 c352-3 (Link to this contribution) As the Foreign Secretary has acknowledged, the issue of arming the insurgent groups has three dimens...

Richard Ottaway | 526 c352 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on a successful conference, which was an important milestone in...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c352 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think that I can happily agree with all of what the right hon. Gentleman has said. Maintainin...

Dennis Skinner | 526 c355 (Link to this contribution) Why cannot the Government be clear about not rearming the insurgent groups in Libya now that the NAT...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c356 (Link to this contribution) I shall put the hon. Gentleman down as being opposed to the arming of the rebels—but he must not get...

Anne Main | 526 c356 (Link to this contribution) May I urge the Foreign Secretary to resist the siren calls of the shadow Foreign Secretary about loo...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c354 (Link to this contribution) The position of the African Union on attendance changed several times during the days preceding the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c354 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to raise those fears. A report produced yesterday by Amnesty International q...

Bob Stewart | 526 c354 (Link to this contribution) Last week I had contact with someone who opposed Colonel Gaddafi in Tripoli. Having had some experie...

Jeremy Corbyn | 526 c354-5 (Link to this contribution) I am slightly concerned about the fact that the Foreign Secretary appears to be taking advice on hum...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c355 (Link to this contribution) I certainly join my hon. Friend in welcoming that statement. It includes other provisions as well as...

Martin Horwood | 526 c355 (Link to this contribution) I too congratulate the Foreign Secretary. Being a bit more of an optimist than the shadow Foreign Se...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c351-2 (Link to this contribution) I can go so far with my right hon. and learned Friend. He is quite right about the utter absence of ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c345-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on the outcome of the London conference on Liby...

Douglas Alexander | 526 c347-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement, although I regret that a copy of it was not made av...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c349-51 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for continuing the wide support for the idea of a contact group. It...

Malcolm Rifkind | 526 c351 (Link to this contribution) May I strongly disagree with the shadow Foreign Secretary and welcome the statement by the American ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c357 (Link to this contribution) I would defy the hon. Gentleman to find any action taken by the coalition that is not in line with t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c363-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, as the whole House will be, for the reaffirmation from all sides of support for the w...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c352 (Link to this contribution) Certainly there would be a big difference between those positions. My hon. Friend should bear in min...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c358 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend will understand, we are not proposing, at this point, to change our policy on this...

Mike Weir | 526 c359 (Link to this contribution) My colleagues and I fully support resolution 1973, but the reinterpretation of it in respect of arms...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c355 (Link to this contribution) I assure the hon. Gentleman that I did not call President Museveni to ask for his advice on human ri...

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Armed conflict Human rights International assistance Politics and government UN resolutions NATO Libya Military intervention Conferences

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