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Africa and the Middle East

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

530 c957-76 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Douglas Alexander | 530 c961-3 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by expressing my unequivocal condemnation of the attacks on the Inter-Continental hotel ...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 530 c965 (Link to this contribution) However welcome it may be that the International Criminal Court has issued those warrants, is not it...

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Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c963-5 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for mentioning events in Kabul, which I did not refer to e...

Bob Ainsworth | 530 c965 (Link to this contribution) The different reaction to the Arab spring, and to Libya in particular, by NATO countries and—on occa...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c965 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is right: it is a legal process, but it is of political importance....

Richard Ottaway | 530 c966 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's assessment that the regime in Libya is being eroded, and I welcome...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c966 (Link to this contribution) If we accepted that argument, we would not have the ICC or have embarked on this in the first place....

Gerald Kaufman | 530 c966 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary protest in the strongest terms to the Israeli Government about the attack...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c966 (Link to this contribution) As ever, we call on the Israeli authorities, like any other authorities in the region, to deal propo...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c957-61 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I will make a statement on north Africa and the middle east, on which I have undert...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) Is there a danger that Colonel Gaddafi misreads recent statements by Amr Moussa, the outgoing secret...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) I hope that any such danger will be removed by the continued meetings of the contact group, on which...

Jonathan Reynolds | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) I support our actions in Libya, but there is often a great deal of cynicism about the motivations of...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that, after events over the past decade, there is a good deal of cynicis...

Julian Brazier | 530 c973 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that, despite a generation of occupation by Syria and series of bloo...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c973 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right to draw attention to Lebanon's key role in the region. It is, of ...

Fiona Mactaggart | 530 c973 (Link to this contribution) My constituents and I are concerned about the degree of mission creep that has occurred in Libya. Th...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c971 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and look forward to the Public Administration Committee's further co...

Mark Durkan | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) Along with much else in the statement, I welcome the urgent attention that the Foreign Secretary is ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c972 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for those words. We will need to reflect on those things over ti...

Rory Stewart | 530 c970 (Link to this contribution) Egypt is clearly far more important to regional stability than Tunisia, but it is a place where, bec...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c970-1 (Link to this contribution) That is a legitimate question, to which there is no fixed or dogmatic answer. The future of both cou...

Alun Michael | 530 c970 (Link to this contribution) The statement has covered a vast range of important issues. May I ask about one specific matter? The...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c970 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman has made an important point. We have stepped up our diplomatic contacts wit...

Speaker | 530 c971 (Link to this contribution) Statements by the Foreign Secretary are not a secret; they are discussed in every pub in the land ev...

Lord Walney | 530 c971 (Link to this contribution) On the proposed flotilla, what active steps is the Foreign Secretary taking to persuade its organise...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c971 (Link to this contribution) I have just taken the active step of speaking about this here in the House of Commons. Although all ...

Tobias Ellwood | 530 c970 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, which illustrates what a volatile and unpredictable period of change the mi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c970 (Link to this contribution) It is another sign of a desperate regime. It adds to the tactics, which were described by the hon. M...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c969 (Link to this contribution) We have continued to take the action that I set out in the House last year. We have urged Israel gre...

Martin Horwood | 530 c969 (Link to this contribution) I strongly welcome the Foreign Secretary's remarks about Israel and Palestine, especially his encour...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c969 (Link to this contribution) I will go a long way with my hon. Friend on this. We want a return to negotiations; that is absolute...

Rushanara Ali | 530 c969 (Link to this contribution) There is great concern about the use of rape as a weapon of war by Gaddafi's army. Will the Foreign ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we are fully in favour of political reconciliation in Afghanistan. I am trying not to say too m...

John Baron | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) In what appears to be the most protracted assassination attempt in history, does the Foreign Secreta...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend's view of the Libya campaign. He must remember that what we are doing...

Caroline Lucas | 530 c969 (Link to this contribution) Earlier today, Palestine solidarity groups, politicians, teachers and others marked the anniversary ...

Geoffrey Robinson | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) When the Foreign Secretary replied to my right hon. Friend the Member for Paisley and Renfrewshire S...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c969-70 (Link to this contribution) Almost everything that we do in Libya is designed to protect civilians from the entire range of horr...

Jeremy Corbyn | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary rightly talked about the need for participation by all sides to bring about a ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) Such decisions are made not by me but my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary. She has to take into ...

James Clappison | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) All parties could do more to bring about a peaceful settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to Hamas, which remains a proscribed organisation. I take ...

Ann Clwyd | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) On the question of Syria, last week I raised with the Leader of the House the incident that the Fore...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) I can tell the right hon. Lady only a little more. My officials have had that conversation with the ...

Bob Stewart | 530 c966 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the fact that Colonel Gaddafi, his son and his chief of intelligence have been indicted by...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c967 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend draws attention to the point that I made earlier: the ICC has proved that it function...

David TC Davies | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that his efforts abroad are undermined when we allow racist, homoph...

Bob Blackman | 530 c974 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary's wise words to the organisers of the proposed flotilla. At a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c974 (Link to this contribution) There are several complications to the hon. Gentleman's proposals. One is that a ceasefire has alway...

Jonathan Edwards | 530 c974 (Link to this contribution) Since the original vote in the House on the mission in Libya, it is clear that the objectives have b...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c974 (Link to this contribution) As I said earlier, I will make sure that our views are clear to all involved. Provocations are not w...

Rehman Chishti | 530 c975 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's statement. In light of the thousands of lives that have been lost ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c974-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not sense that that is the general view in the House. Our military mission in Libya continues t...

Stephen Metcalfe | 530 c973 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's remarks, particularly concerning Iran and its nuclear ambitions. Wh...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c973 (Link to this contribution) It is important to stress that we have used non-military means as well. The UK has funded ships that...

Geraint Davies | 530 c974 (Link to this contribution) Colonel Gaddafi intends to fight to the death, and the Libyan people are sick to death of killing ea...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c973-4 (Link to this contribution) No one can be sure whether sanctions will of themselves prevent a nuclear programme, but last year, ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c976 (Link to this contribution) We stand firm with the Quartet. I made it clear in my earlier remarks what we expect of the Palestin...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c975 (Link to this contribution) President Assad must reform or step aside. If we are to maintain international unity of pressure on ...

Andrew Percy | 530 c975-6;530 c975 (Link to this contribution) We all want a negotiated settlement to the middle east conflict, but given that Hamas continues to a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c965-6 (Link to this contribution) While, of course, we will want to analyse the campaign when it is over, the right hon. Gentleman has...

Bernard Jenkin | 530 c971 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend's determination to see through the NATO campaign to a positive conclu...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 530 c968 (Link to this contribution) That is the alternative view to that expressed by the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn...

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Africa EU action International Criminal Court Politics and government United Nations UN resolutions Sanctions Syria Middle East Libya

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