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Middle East and North Africa

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

527 c33-57 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c33-6 (Link to this contribution) Statement. With permission, Mr Speaker, I will update the House on recent developments in the middle...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) The first point to make to my right hon. and learned Friend is that these are not instructors. I wou...

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Douglas Alexander | 527 c36-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for advance sight of his statement this afternoon. I join the Foreign...

Speaker | 527 c41 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to listen to the hon. Gentleman. When I have heard him, I invariably feel be...

Peter Tapsell | 527 c41 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest to my right hon. Friend that it may be over-optimistic to assume that the civil war in...

Speaker | 527 c41 (Link to this contribution) Order. The Front-Bench exchanges, although enlightening and engaging in equal measure, have neverthe...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c38-41 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman particularly for what he said about various countries at t...

Malcolm Rifkind | 527 c42 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary accept that the Government's twin fundamental aims of protecting civilian...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c42 (Link to this contribution) I understand the right hon. Gentleman's concern. Other Ministers and I went to the NATO meeting in B...

Bob Ainsworth | 527 c42 (Link to this contribution) Fear is growing that, although we are doing enough to keep this operation going, we are not doing en...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) Well, so do I. I absolutely take my hon. Friend's point about the Punic wars and the historical divi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c43 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's congratulations in the spirit in which they were offered, and I am tem...

Jeremy Corbyn | 527 c43 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on delivering an absolutely brilliant piece of Foreign Offi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c44 (Link to this contribution) No. Although NATO air forces are constrained by having to operate entirely from the air—obviously th...

Lord Redwood | 527 c44 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Libyan regime can place its forces in heavily congested urban areas and fight house t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. We do operate under certain constraints. The United Nations res...

Geoffrey Robinson | 527 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) May I compliment the Foreign Secretary on his attitude to this difficult matter? May I also urge him...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly true that the United Kingdom and France make a huge contribution and, most of the ti...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 527 c43 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding my right hon. Friend's careful and circumspect response to the shadow Foreign Secret...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c44 (Link to this contribution) I am trying to restrain them, as I restrained the right hon. Member for Coventry North East (Mr Ains...

Tony Lloyd | 527 c44 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has quite rightly referred to the legal, moral and international base that res...

Joan Ruddock | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) The reported use of cluster bombs against civilians by the Gaddafi regime has been rightly condemned...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) No. The work with international partners is very important—particularly the work with Turkey, as I m...

Richard Ottaway | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is working with our international partners to persuade the Syrian authorities ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c47 (Link to this contribution) I have had no indication that it would be possible to pass a new and—what one might call—stronger re...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 527 c46-7 (Link to this contribution) If, as my right hon. Friend suggests, there is such general international agreement that Gaddafi sho...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c46 (Link to this contribution) I think the report in question was about the possibility of a presidential statement, rather than a ...

Mike Gapes | 527 c46 (Link to this contribution) This morning, the BBC was reporting that four European Union countries were working up a new resolut...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c46 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there are many such reports. My right hon. Friend mentions reports concerning Algeria, and ther...

David Davis | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) It has been reported that NATO intelligence believes that some 450 of Gaddafi's mercenary army are i...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c45 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady is absolutely right about cluster munitions—and we might add land mines as well;...

Robert Halfon | 527 c48 (Link to this contribution) Given that there are now 300 dead in Syria and hundreds more imprisoned, is it not time for Britain ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c48 (Link to this contribution) As I mentioned in answer to earlier questions, it is not a simple matter to pass a United Nations Se...

David Winnick | 527 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) No one disputes the brutality of the Gaddafi regime, which of course we were selling arms to, along ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c48 (Link to this contribution) Of course we all want a ceasefire. One of the stated goals of resolution 1973 is a ceasefire—a genui...

Chris Bryant | 527 c48 (Link to this contribution) I sympathise with the Foreign Secretary, but I am afraid I agree—I do not often say this—with my hon...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) Sympathy from the hon. Gentleman is entirely unnecessary in my case; I can assure him that I will be...

Jo Swinson | 527 c47 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Foreign Secretary about Saudi Arabia, as there have also been reports of protests—albe...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c47 (Link to this contribution) Given the previous question, it is important to recognise in this context the strong and, it seems, ...

Keith Vaz | 527 c47 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome what the Foreign Secretary has said about developments in Yemen, and commend his effor...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c47 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we absolutely are ready to do that. At that point we will, of course, want to revive, with some...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c50 (Link to this contribution) No. Of course, I will make statements to the House whenever possible and I am in no way resistant to...

Stewart Hosie | 527 c50 (Link to this contribution) Could the Foreign Secretary explain how it is that the Italians are now providing strike aircraft an...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c50 (Link to this contribution) The national transitional council has organised itself over the past five weeks. It has a president ...

Andrew Murrison | 527 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) It seems fairly clear that the western Sahara and the Tindouf refugee camps are being used as a recr...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c51 (Link to this contribution) If we have clear evidence of what my hon. Friend raises, we will make that very clear and there will...

William Cash | 527 c49 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary and I have had a number of exchanges on this subject. I have a great deal of s...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c49 (Link to this contribution) I hope the policy as I have set it out is very clear about the Government's understanding of what is...

John McDonnell | 527 c49 (Link to this contribution) As we have seen in the House today, to many outside this House Britain's intervention in Libya looks...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) Attempts at mediation by other countries so far have run into the problem of Colonel Gaddafi's refus...

John Baron | 527 c50 (Link to this contribution) The debate and vote on Libya was couched very much in terms of humanitarian aid, but it has since be...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c52 (Link to this contribution) Since it is possible to make quick, deadly judo moves, I will try to give quick answers. We have con...

Barry Sheerman | 527 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) May I remind the Foreign Secretary that with a heavy heart I voted in favour of the intervention in ...

Speaker | 527 c52 (Link to this contribution) Order. A very large number of colleagues are still seeking to catch my eye. As right hon. and hon. M...

Nadhim Zahawi | 527 c52 (Link to this contribution) At the end of February, I and a number of colleagues visited Syria. It was obvious to us then that t...

Caroline Lucas | 527 c52 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary accept that our activities in Libya have now gone well beyond the terms o...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c52 (Link to this contribution) Well, no. It will be evident that I do not agree with that. I think we are operating within the UN r...

Laura Sandys | 527 c51 (Link to this contribution) From contacts of mine in Libya it is clear that morale among the opposition fighters, whether they b...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) The wording that we agreed for the whole contact group at Doha and the wording that I used in my sta...

Madeleine Moon | 527 c51 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary might well have the agreement of the Libya contact group, but does he have the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c51 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I have made it clear in the House today—indeed, on all days—that there will be no ground...

Baroness Berger | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) Over the weekend I met a number of constituents who are very concerned about their families and the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) We have made those representations all the time. I went to Yemen and saw President Saleh at the begi...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to remind the Assad regime that ordering the army's ...

Barry Gardiner | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) On 18 March the Prime Minister said:"““The resolution helps to enforce the arms embargo, and our leg...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) The NATO operations, in which ships of many nations are involved, including those of our own Royal N...

Matthew Offord | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) Given the permeable nature of the Libyan border, particularly around the Sarra triangle, will the Fo...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) We have made that point to neighbouring countries and have been particularly active with the Governm...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) Just because we cannot do everything does not mean that we should not do something. It has of course...

Duncan Hames | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary carefully draws the distinction that equipment supplied by Britain to the Liby...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c53 (Link to this contribution) We can be fairly confident that the transitional national council very much wants to use the telecom...

Andrew Bridgen | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that over the last few weeks, not only have the eyes of much of the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the reasons. Certainly, if Gaddafi had been able to do what he intended to do, the Ar...

Speaker | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary and colleagues for their co-operation in what were very full ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) We provided the note on the legal advice in order for the House to have a debate and for it to take ...

David Morris | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) Should Colonel Gaddafi be deposed, or go by whatever means, would he be subject to the 1970 human ri...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) Those are of course matters for the House anyway, but my point is that I do not regard the Governmen...

Graham Stringer | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary sounds increasingly like Dr Pangloss —that this is the best possible policy of...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) It is very important to enforce the existing sanctions on the regime. We are doing a lot of work to ...

David Rutley | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) Given the Gaddafi regime's constrained refining capability, what assessment has my right hon. Friend...

Thomas Docherty | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Foreign Secretary on the subject of the contact group? What discussions has it had a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will. On top of that, such actions will not even bring longer-term security to the regime its...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) We have sent in a small team of military advisers, as have the French and, for all I know, some othe...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) As ever, that was a very perceptive question from the hon. Lady. That is a very important issue. A F...

Kris Hopkins | 527 c54 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that it is important to communicate to the critics—in this country ...

Stephen Phillips | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) It was plain from my right hon. Friend's answer to my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for K...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I believe that the NATO command—NATO plus the Arab allies, I should stress—are aware of these s...

Jim Shannon | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for his statement. Right across the whole of Libya a great many new battles are...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) The UK is very clear: we have expressed our outrage at those attacks. We have also called on Israel ...

Christopher Pincher | 527 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's announcement of a proper financial structure to provide short-term ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) Of course it would be helpful if the ICC were able to do that. As the hon. Lady knows, there are cas...

Bob Blackman | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) In the weeks leading up to the most recent major religious festivals, Jerusalem suffered the first s...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) Those Libyan banknotes are held in this country as part of the asset freeze, and since they are held...

Fiona Mactaggart | 527 c56 (Link to this contribution) May I add my voice to those on both sides of the House who have called for a further debatable resol...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c57 (Link to this contribution) That depends on what Colonel Gaddafi has done. The International Criminal Court is looking into that...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very powerful point. The coalition includes countries from the Arab League, a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 527 c55 (Link to this contribution) The contact group has not discussed troops going in for humanitarian purposes. It did of course disc...

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Demonstrations Armed conflict Crimes against humanity Human rights International assistance International Criminal Court Politics and government Violence UN resolutions Sanctions NATO Israel Palestine Syria Middle East Yemen Peace negotiations EU external relations Egypt Libya Tunisia Military intervention North Africa Bahrain

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