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Middle East and North Africa

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

533 c495-513 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Keith Vaz | 533 c509 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary's initiative in seeking a discussion on Yemen at the Security...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c509 (Link to this contribution) We will consider any step that helps. The right hon. Gentleman is asking me to read the mind of the ...

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David Winnick | 533 c509 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary recognise that very many Palestinians—I would imagine the large majority—...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c510 (Link to this contribution) We are on the side of a two-state solution. We want a secure Israel living alongside a viable and se...

Bob Blackman | 533 c509 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that I have just returned from a trip to Jordan and the west bank...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c509 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that my hon. Friend raised the case of Gilad Shalit; he is well on his way to a Nobel p...

Denis MacShane | 533 c510 (Link to this contribution) We support the Foreign Secretary when he condemns Gaddafi's torture in Libya and Bashar Assad's tort...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c510 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have been very clear in what I have said about that matter. I do not think that the B...

Stephen Gilbert | 533 c510 (Link to this contribution) May I turn the House's attention to today's written ministerial statement on the arms export regime?...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c510 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his welcome for this move. On Bahrain, there is no evidence of B...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c512 (Link to this contribution) That was one of the major issues when we ordered the closure of the embassy of the old regime. From ...

Jonathan Ashworth | 533 c512 (Link to this contribution) What estimate has the Foreign Office made of the number of Libyan students currently studying in the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c512 (Link to this contribution) Through the work of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Development, we ar...

Ian Murray | 533 c512 (Link to this contribution) On a recent visit to Gaza, the United Nations was keen to stress that 800,000 Gazans were living on ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c511-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman's point. That is why we place such emphasis on the European neighbou...

Andrew Love | 533 c511 (Link to this contribution) In the past year, the Egyptian economy has shrunk by more than 4%. That is reflected throughout the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c511 (Link to this contribution) I will seek every opportunity to keep the House updated on what we are doing. To give a brief answer...

Hugh Bayley | 533 c511 (Link to this contribution) I have profound respect for the role of our armed services in Libya. However, we know from experienc...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c511 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I assure my hon. Friend that our diplomats are religiously neutral about religion. We support t...

Bob Stewart | 533 c511 (Link to this contribution) I lived for three years in Yemen, for three years in Bahrain and also in Jordan. I was always told n...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c512-3 (Link to this contribution) The whole House believes in such freedom, in the rule of law and in places of worship being respecte...

Gavin Shuker | 533 c512 (Link to this contribution) I commend the work of the Foreign Secretary and the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonw...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c508-9 (Link to this contribution) Monitors, yes. In the case of Egypt, it is important that the terminology is right. The Egyptians do...

Dominic Raab | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) Monitors.

Mark Hendrick | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) Would not a successful resolution on UN membership for Palestine strengthen the hand of Fatah, where...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has an important point. It is true that how we act at the United Nations and how ...

Dominic Raab | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his comprehensive statement. There are worrying signs in Egypt. Un...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) In answer to the early part of my hon. Friend's question, we are active in particular projects in Eg...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 533 c507 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for the individual efforts that he made with regard to Gilad Shalit; I...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c507 (Link to this contribution) There are, in effect, many such summits. The G8 summit at Deauville at the end of May focused absolu...

Jo Swinson | 533 c507 (Link to this contribution) The positive example of Liberia and the rather more depressing tale of Angola show that the involvem...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c508 (Link to this contribution) That is a very high priority for the Department for International Development in all the work that i...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c507 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do agree, and I thank my hon. Friend for his remarks, as does the Under-Secretary; we are gra...

Robert Halfon | 533 c506-7 (Link to this contribution) I commend my right hon. Friend and, particularly, the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commo...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c506 (Link to this contribution) We have made our view very clear, including in discussions at the United Nations General Assembly. F...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c505 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do agree. The King of Morocco has shown a determination to be ahead of the curve in the deman...

Richard Burden | 533 c505 (Link to this contribution) The first question that the Foreign Secretary was asked from the Government side of the House basica...

Andrew Murrison | 533 c505 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is right to draw attention to the elections being held in Morocco next month a...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c506 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I very much agree. In line with my earlier answer to our hon. Friend the Member for Ilford Nort...

Louise Ellman | 533 c506 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's focus on the importance of negotiations between Israelis and Pales...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c505-6 (Link to this contribution) The paramount need is to return to negotiations—I stress that. The Palestinian state that the hon. G...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 533 c506 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary's rejection of the admonitions of some in this ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c504-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. That is of immense importance and one of the potentially very exciting aspects of t...

Jane Ellison | 533 c504 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome the Foreign Secretary's statement, and in particular I am very encouraged by men...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c505 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely not my brief to defend the Bahraini Government in their handling of the situation. ...

Valerie Vaz | 533 c505 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary know why the Bahraini doctors and nurses are on trial in any court, crimi...

Tony Lloyd | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) On the same theme, does the Foreign Secretary accept that the continued economic siege of Gaza creat...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's terminology is slightly different from how I would describe the situation, but ...

Simon Hughes | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) We have seen the winds of change blowing though north Africa and the middle east in an encouraging w...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c504 (Link to this contribution) It is of course our objective to help bring about a two-state solution. We believe in and want to se...

Gerald Kaufman | 533 c504 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman talks about carefully chosen words with regard to the Palestinian appl...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c504 (Link to this contribution) Of course, I work closely with Secretary Clinton on this and other issues, so I do not characterise ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c495-8 (Link to this contribution) Statement Events in the middle east continue to have far-reaching implications for the peace and sta...

Douglas Alexander | 533 c498-500 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement, and for advance sight of it this morning. On the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c500-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for those questions; I think that they reflect the large measure of...

Lee Scott | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the advancements that could be made after the long-overdue rele...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) This successful negotiation is a ray of hope in a difficult and often bleak situation in the middle ...

Speaker | 533 c503 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have taken quite a long time so far, so we need brevity in the questions that will be aske...

Subjects

Democracy Elections Politics and government Security UN resolutions Saudi Arabia Israel Civil disorder Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Yemen Egypt Libya Tunisia Jordan North Africa Bahrain

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