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Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

528 c55-126 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for International Development

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 528 c104 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am concerned that everyone who wishes to speak in the debate should get in. The only way we...

Speaker | 528 c79 (Link to this contribution) Order. A time limit of eight minutes will be imposed, plus two minutes for injury time. However, I c...

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Andrew Mitchell | 528 c123 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me for a moment, I turn now to Yemen. The right hon. Member for L...

Andrew Mitchell | 528 c123-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I have even greater concerns about the situa...

Keith Vaz | 528 c123 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Secretary of State for that announcement and thank him very much for it. W...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c114 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making some important points. All wars have to end with some kind of political...

John Glen | 528 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to take this opportunity to make some observations about the situation in Libya and Syria, an...

Yasmin Qureshi | 528 c113 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that. I was also a little disappointed that the hon. Member for Brom...

Andrew Mitchell | 528 c121-3 (Link to this contribution) This has been an important, timely and wide-ranging debate—a huge mouthful of a debate with a number...

Stephen Gilbert | 528 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Ms Abbott). I agre...

Rushanara Ali | 528 c118-21 (Link to this contribution) Today's debate is profoundly important and comes at a critical time. I thank the Secretary of State ...

Nick Boles | 528 c115 (Link to this contribution) I accept what the hon. Lady says, but does she accept that there was no question in the Irish situat...

John Glen | 528 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) Quite possibly; that is my point. Given recent events, I believe that the notion that we can bring t...

Diane Abbott | 528 c115 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased indeed to have the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Before going any...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c98 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not think that things such as the killing of 13 people at Qalandiya cr...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 528 c98 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is very important. I asked the Prime Minister a month or so ago whether he was con...

David Winnick | 528 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) I listened to the speech made by the right hon. Member for North East Hampshire (Mr Arbuthnot) with ...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 528 c98 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the settlements, and I have said so in a speech in this Chamber. The hon. Gentleman he...

Mike Gapes | 528 c95-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Tonbridge and Malling (Sir John Stanley). He an...

Mike Gapes | 528 c98 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman not agree that one of the important consequences of this agreement is ...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 528 c97 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Ilford South (Mike Gapes), the former Chairman of the...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c102 (Link to this contribution) I welcome today's debate and the commitment from the Foreign Secretary that there will be regular re...

Sajid Javid | 528 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to follow the hon. Member for Walsall North (Mr Winnick), who can always be relied o...

Nick Boles | 528 c106 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for that intervention, and I agree with the hon. Gentleman and share his analysis...

David Winnick | 528 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman, although I disagree with him, is making the most interesting speech. I now under...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 528 c107-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure, as ever, to follow the right hon. Member for Leicester East (Keith Vaz). I am goin...

Keith Vaz | 528 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Grantham and Stamford (Nick Boles), and may I offer t...

Christopher Pincher | 528 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Members for Newport West (Paul Flynn) and for Walsall Nort...

Paul Flynn | 528 c109-10 (Link to this contribution) As the proud son of a soldier who was grievously injured on a battlefield and later cheated out of h...

Nick Boles | 528 c113 (Link to this contribution) I am enjoying the hon. Lady's speech so much that I want to give her a bit of injury time. Will she ...

Yasmin Qureshi | 528 c111-3 (Link to this contribution) When the tragedy of 11 September occurred, I was working for the United Nations mission in Kosovo. I...

Diane Abbott | 528 c103 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend had the wisdom to vote against this ill-fated intervention. Does he agree that it is ...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c103 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that the forces of the Gaddafi regime were being very brutal to people in Benghazi, ...

Paul Flynn | 528 c103 (Link to this contribution) It is an extremely rare event when I disagree with my hon. Friend on this subject, but does he under...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c103 (Link to this contribution) The parallel is Vietnam 1963, when several thousand CIA advisers descended on that country. That eve...

Nick Boles | 528 c105 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker—it is just my luck to have the axe fall as I rise.

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not give way any more as I have had my allotted injury time, if the House understands what I ...

David Winnick | 528 c105 (Link to this contribution) It was nothing personal.

Caroline Lucas | 528 c65 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c64-5 (Link to this contribution) Turkey is taking a lead in the region, in particular in trying to persuade the Syrian authorities to...

Hywel Williams | 528 c64 (Link to this contribution) What steps is the Foreign Secretary taking to encourage Turkey to take a democratic lead in the regi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c64 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. That is changing the dynamics and it is important for all to understa...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 528 c64 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is making a perfectly correct and robust case, but does he agree that the emer...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c63-4 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to Yemen in a moment, if the right hon. Gentleman will allow me to keep a semblance of ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) We certainly expect and will demand fair trials, and I have discussed that situation with Bahrain's ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c65 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Lady once already, but as she is the only representative of her party, ...

Caroline Lucas | 528 c65 (Link to this contribution) That is very kind; I look forward to making many more interventions on that basis. Does the Secretar...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) It is no discredit to my predecessors that they have worked hard on this, and it would be wrong to d...

David Winnick | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) I have lost count of the number of Foreign Secretaries who have told us that every effort would be m...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) We have not changed in any way our policy on Hamas. That is why I am making this statement about jud...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) Securing peace in the middle east must of course be done on the basis of the Quartet principles, whi...

Lord Walney | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point, will the Foreign Secretary make clear the central importance that the Governm...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 528 c67 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for being generous in giving way. On the point made by the hon. Member ...

Paul Flynn | 528 c68 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman confirm the very welcome report last week that the Prime Minister inte...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 528 c73 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that commentators in the British press who attack aid support fo...

Lord Spellar | 528 c70-3 (Link to this contribution) This debate certainly covers a vast number of countries of interest, but it does not include China, ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c68-70 (Link to this contribution) I am coming on to Afghanistan, and I will talk briefly about troop levels, but I will leave any such...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c76 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that in Tunisia, there is serious concern about the resurrection of ma...

Lord Spellar | 528 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has misunderstood what I was saying. I fully agree that the de-Ba'athification pr...

Andrew Murrison | 528 c75 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest to the right hon. Gentleman. I am slightly concerned that he may ...

Lord Spellar | 528 c73-5 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do. This is an argument that needs to be had right across the world. Recently in Austral...

Lord Spellar | 528 c76-7 (Link to this contribution) We certainly ought to be concerned about that; my hon. Friend highlights another significant concern...

David Winnick | 528 c77 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do not question Israel's right to exist—I have made my views about that clear over the y...

Lord Spellar | 528 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I presume that the hon. Gentleman would also have mentioned the fact that the Israeli army ...

Julian Lewis | 528 c78 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is speaking very sensibly on this subject. I have always supported a two-st...

Ann Clwyd | 528 c81-3 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that the Foreign Secretary mentioned Iraq, because it is seldom mentioned now, and needs t...

Malcolm Rifkind | 528 c79-81 (Link to this contribution) In the short time available, I shall concentrate my comments on two matters: first, the conclusions ...

Gerald Kaufman | 528 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) Three months ago it seemed that the Arab spring in north Africa and the middle east might bring demo...

Richard Ottaway | 528 c83-5 (Link to this contribution) It is, as ever, a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Cynon Valley (Ann Clwyd), who is a Fo...

Lord Spellar | 528 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) I say to my hon. Friend and near neighbour that in all the discussions on the middle east, and parti...

Lord Bruce of Bennachie | 528 c86-8 (Link to this contribution) As befits my role as Chair of the International Development Select Committee, I will concentrate on ...

Dan Jarvis | 528 c88-9 (Link to this contribution) As we approach the sixth anniversary of 7/7 and the 10th anniversary of 9/11, my thoughts turn to th...

Rory Stewart | 528 c89 (Link to this contribution) It is great to say that we should stand shoulder to shoulder with Pakistan and that we should respec...

John Stanley | 528 c93-4 (Link to this contribution) In the House on 21 March, the Prime Minister said in answer to a question from the hon. Member for B...

Martin Horwood | 528 c94 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support many of the points that my hon. Friend is making, and it is absolutely proper to ...

Cathy Jamieson | 528 c93 (Link to this contribution) Of course they are two different things, but I have worries, which were identified at the outset of ...

Cathy Jamieson | 528 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate, and, in particular, to follow so many hon. Me...

Martin Horwood | 528 c92 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady appreciate the distinction between the wishes of the British Government, in terms...

Dan Jarvis | 528 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. It neatly brings me on to the points I am about to ...

Roger Gale | 528 c90-1 (Link to this contribution) In January this year, I had the privilege to visit Pakistan with the Commonwealth Parliamentary Asso...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely true. We responded to the call from the Arab League, and I discussed the situatio...

Simon Hughes | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will, of course, appreciate that there is a desire for conflict resolution tha...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) I will take a couple more interventions, and then make some progress.

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with the comments of the Chief of the Defence Staff, but they did not relate to regime ch...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) The United Nations envoy to whom I referred is such a third party, and he has just been to Tripoli. ...

John Baron | 528 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) There is evidence that NATO's insistence that Gaddafi be removed is prolonging the civil war, and th...

Angus Robertson | 528 c55 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is aware that a great many people view it as very important that this has bee...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c55 (Link to this contribution) Yes, the hon. Gentleman is quite right. The fact that we are acting on a United Nations resolution m...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c55 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the Middle East, North Africa, Afghanist...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) That would, of course, have to be discussed with our colleagues, partners and other members of NATO,...

Richard Ottaway | 528 c57 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary said that General Richards had been referring to the command and control struc...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c58 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for, unusually, paying me a compliment. There are important differe...

Denis MacShane | 528 c58 (Link to this contribution) May I say that in recent weeks the Foreign Secretary has conducted his part of the campaign with exe...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c58 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend can certainly be assured that we will stay within the scope of the UN resolution, wit...

Edward Leigh | 528 c58 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that many of us are worried about what the Chief of the Defence Staff ...

Mike Gapes | 528 c57 (Link to this contribution) On previous occasions the Foreign Secretary has told us that the Attorney-General is giving advice t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c57 (Link to this contribution) I cannot give an assurance that we will provide a running commentary on legal advice, but I can give...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c57 (Link to this contribution) I will take one more intervention, form the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, but then I mu...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c61-3 (Link to this contribution) No. I have called at successive meetings of the contact group and in this House for a steady intensi...

Bob Ainsworth | 528 c61 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary not glossing over the significance of what the Chief of the Defence Staff s...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c60-1 (Link to this contribution) We have not given them official recognition; we recognise states, not Governments. We recognise the ...

Julian Lewis | 528 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend reassure us that there will be no change in the mission—no mission creep? ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) Those countries are all in different situations. I wish to discuss those different countries later, ...

Sandra Osborne | 528 c60 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of the national transitional council, on a recent visit to the US the Select Committe...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c59 (Link to this contribution) Of course it is open to Colonel Gaddafi to comply with resolution 1973, to end violence against civi...

Jeremy Corbyn | 528 c59 (Link to this contribution) Any innocent person listening to the Foreign Secretary's speech would assume that the whole policy t...

Diane Abbott | 528 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should speak to some of my friends in the Democratic Unionist party about how the...

John Stanley | 528 c94-5 (Link to this contribution) That anticipates the point that I am about to make. Britain was, of course, by no means the only co...

Nick Boles | 528 c105 (Link to this contribution) I am not so sure about that. Nevertheless, it is fortuitous that I find myself following the hon. Me...

David Burrowes | 528 c66 (Link to this contribution) Today, when hon. Members from both sides of the House have joined in celebrating the 63rd anniversar...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c67 (Link to this contribution) In this situation the interlocutor for Israel remains President Abbas. He insists, I understand, tha...

Gerald Kaufman | 528 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) Could the Foreign Secretary explain how negotiations can take place and be successful in the new sit...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) Negotiations on statehood are certainly the best way forward, but it is when those negotiations get ...

Caroline Lucas | 528 c56 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree with the comments made at the weekend by the Chief of the Defence ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 528 c57 (Link to this contribution) I will take just one more intervention for the moment, but I am not leaving Libya for a while.

Keith Vaz | 528 c63 (Link to this contribution) I hope that the situation in Yemen will also be raised during those discussions because, as the righ...

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