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Africa and the Middle East

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

526 c751-66 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes his point clearly. We are not putting anybody straight into clink. Mu...

Denis MacShane | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

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Denis MacShane | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the work of the Foreign Office and its agents in bringing Musa Kusa to the United King...

Dennis Skinner | 526 c758-9 (Link to this contribution) In the second world war, Rudolf Hess landed in this country and was locked up. Why is it that this M...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) There are precedents for doing deals with people one has previously found unattractive—there is no d...

Julian Brazier | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that while of course we must observe the rule of law in this countr...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c759 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. We have treated this with urgency all along. It was back in December that we called...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c759 (Link to this contribution) As I say, our response to this and other situations will be entirely based on the law of our land. I...

Keith Vaz | 526 c759 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will know that over the past two days 1,600 people have been injured in Taiz a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c759 (Link to this contribution) A great many diplomatic efforts have been made. The right hon. Gentleman mentions my own efforts. I ...

Edward Leigh | 526 c759-60 (Link to this contribution) When Musa Kusa was ambassador here, we had to expel him for openly calling for the murder of disside...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c760 (Link to this contribution) No, I think that the high moral ground is retained by basing all our actions on what is legally corr...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c760 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a number of assumptions in his question. I will not necessarily take issue ...

Barry Gardiner | 526 c760 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that among the restrictions that he proposes to remove is the fre...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c760 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that I have ever referred to days, weeks, months or years, and I am not going to start...

John Baron | 526 c760 (Link to this contribution) When we first intervened in Libya, the length of our commitment was talked of in briefings in terms ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c761 (Link to this contribution) I hate to disappoint the hon. Gentleman on something that he was going to commend me for, but no, we...

Andy Slaughter | 526 c761 (Link to this contribution) On Friday, the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported that the Foreign Secretary, with French and Germa...

Martin Horwood | 526 c762 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary confirm that we owe it to the United Nations to continue to press the Afg...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c761-2 (Link to this contribution) The number of Arab states involved in military participation is two, Qatar and the United Arab Emira...

Elfyn Llwyd | 526 c761 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for an advance copy of his statement. Of the 34 countries currently i...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c761 (Link to this contribution) This is a vital subject that we discussed in part of the London conference last week. It will be an ...

Lord Lancaster of Kimbolton | 526 c761 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary update the House on the planning for the post-conflict reconstruction and...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c762-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. The strength and determination of the attacks that the reg...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c762 (Link to this contribution) I do not think we have ever suggested that the Afghan national security forces are able to look afte...

Laura Sandys | 526 c762 (Link to this contribution) I know that the Foreign Secretary is well aware of the tribal differences in Libya and the historica...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c762 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree with my hon. Friend. I absolutely condemn the burning of the Koran in that or any ...

Paul Flynn | 526 c762 (Link to this contribution) Does not the failure of the armed Afghan police to stop the lynchings of the United Nations workers,...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c763 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I think my hon. Friend makes an absolutely fair point. All those people have important insights...

Andrew Murrison | 526 c763 (Link to this contribution) In 2003, in planning for the reconstruction of Iraq, the UK Government gave too much weight to the o...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c763-4 (Link to this contribution) I do not mean missile guidance systems; I mean telecommunications equipment. I do not want to go int...

Chris Bryant | 526 c763 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary said that Britain would now give the rebels telecommunications equipment. That...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c763 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman can imagine, we discussed Côte d'Ivoire, but also Libya at great length. Mr Pi...

Mark Durkan | 526 c763 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary referred to his discussions this morning with Jean Ping about the terrible sit...

Peter Bone | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary should be congratulated on his statement, and the coalition Government should ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) He is not detained or under arrest, so as things stand, he is free to go where he wishes. I am not a...

Jim Shannon | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement to the House. On the arrival from Misrata of the hos...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) We have other plans to get further assistance into Misrata, although of course, I cannot be specific...

Robert Halfon | 526 c764-5 (Link to this contribution) Under the cover of what else is going on in the middle east, the Iranian regime recently increased t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, any action must be based on evidence. The hon. Gentleman is quite right that things ...

Mike Hancock | 526 c764 (Link to this contribution) While I can accept that Musa Kusa's circumstances have changed, the one thing that has not changed i...

Duncan Hames | 526 c766 (Link to this contribution) I heard what the Foreign Secretary said to the hon. Member for Brent North (Barry Gardiner) on asset...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c765 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is one of the things attended to in the UN Security Council resolutions, which call for ac...

Christopher Pincher | 526 c765 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary and the shadow Foreign Secretary both acknowledged that the Gaddafi regime is ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c765 (Link to this contribution) Yes, most certainly—my hon. Friend is quite right to draw attention to that. The Iranian Government ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c766 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for that question. Rapid deployment teams in a variety of very diffi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c766 (Link to this contribution) Basically, yes, any changes in sanctions on people who have defected from the regime are likely, in ...

Daniel Byles | 526 c766 (Link to this contribution) The House has rightly praised our armed forces for the visible work they are doing, but will the Sec...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c751-3 (Link to this contribution) Statement Mr Speaker, with permission, I will update the House on recent developments in Africa and ...

Richard Ottaway | 526 c757 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement. Does he agree that removing Colonel Gaddafi must be...

Speaker | 526 c757 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is understandably much interest in this statement, but there are three more statements ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c755-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for what continues to be strong bipartisan support for the...

Douglas Alexander | 526 c753-5 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement and for allowing me advance sight of it this afterno...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 526 c757-8 (Link to this contribution) In view of the emerging possibility of further prosecutions in relation to the Lockerbie bombing, do...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c757 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is getting involved there and taking sides, but I hesitate to call it a civil war...

David Winnick | 526 c757 (Link to this contribution) However much we despise Gaddafi and everything that he represents, does the Foreign Secretary unders...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c757 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is no viable future for the country as long as Colonel Gaddafi is in power, and my hon. F...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) I had better leave any legal deliberations to those better qualified in the Government. Certainly, w...

Mary MacLeod | 526 c759 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend confirm that matters in the Ivory Coast will be dealt with with some urgen...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 526 c758 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman nods his head, so I think we have his approval.

Subjects

Bombings Civilians Humanitarian aid EU action Politics and government Military aircraft United Nations Violence UN resolutions Sanctions Lockerbie African Union Middle East Yemen Libya League of Arab States World Food Programme Côte d'Ivoire Gaddafi, Muammar Bahrain Koussa, Moussa

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