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Debate on select committee report on Wednesday, 22 June 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Teverson. The answering member was Lord Wallace of Saltaire.


EUC Report: EU Afghan Police Mission

Lords debate on motion to consider the report of the European Union Committee, The EU's Afghan Police Mission (HL 87 2010-11). Agreed to on question.


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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
728 c118-40GC 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
European Union Committee
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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Proceeding contributions
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c136GC (Link to this contribution) It is partly saying that these areas are still extremely insecure and are so much in the hands of wh...
Lord Teverson | 728 c118GC (Link to this contribution) That the Grand Committee do consider the report of the European Union Committee, The EU’s Afghan Pol...
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Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 728 c121-4GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support everything that the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, has said, and a great deal of evi...
Lord Teverson | 728 c118-21GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it gives me great pleasure to introduce this very important report, which concerns lessons...
Baroness Bonham-Carter of Yarnbury | 728 c126-7GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am afraid that there will inevitably be a certain amount of repetition in this debate, w...
Lord Radice | 728 c124-6GC (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the noble Lords, Lord Selkirk of Douglas and Lord Teverson, on their very able speech...
Lord Sewel | 728 c130-2GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by thanking the noble Earl, Lord Sandwich, for his contribution, not only in terms...
Earl of Sandwich | 728 c128-30GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by expressing my regrets at the tragic loss of more British soldiers last week. It...
Lord Liddle | 728 c132GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this wonderful report shows once again the extremely valuable work of your Lordships’ Sele...
Lord Teverson | 728 c138-40GC (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I genuinely thank all those who have contributed today. The debate has been quite clear ab...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c137-8GC (Link to this contribution) I do not have the information on that; I will write to the noble Lord. I turn to the problem of dec...
Lord Selkirk of Douglas | 728 c137GC (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister aware that NATO has lengthened its training period for the police from six weeks to ...
Lord Sewel | 728 c135GC (Link to this contribution) That is a very interesting point, but would that provision not be facilitated if that sort of servic...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c134-5GC (Link to this contribution) I thank all those who have contributed to this valuable debate. I particularly thank the noble Lord,...
Lord Liddle | 728 c133-4GC (Link to this contribution) That is a very high recommendation and I will follow it. What will be the role of this mission in th...
Lord Radice | 728 c133GC (Link to this contribution) My noble friend should read it before his holidays. If he is really interested in gripping bedtime r...
Lord Liddle | 728 c132-3GC (Link to this contribution) It really is. As the noble Lord, Lord Selkirk, said, the report is frank, direct and relevant. It ha...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c137GC (Link to this contribution) Like me, the noble Lord goes on holiday there. My wife and I spent a week in the heel of southern It...
Lord Radice | 728 c137GC (Link to this contribution) My family has not been in Italy for 150 years.
Lord Radice | 728 c136GC (Link to this contribution) What is that sentence actually saying? Is it a euphemism for Afghanistan being so ignorant and barba...
Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 728 c135-6GC (Link to this contribution) Indeed. I should remark, incidentally, that when we first engaged in this provision in the western B...
Subjects
Corruption Bureaucracy Police Training Secondment Afghanistan NATO Literacy EU external relations EU aid EU Police Mission
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