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Middle East and North Africa

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Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

535 c288-306 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) I think the situation in the Security Council is quite well understood in the Arab world. As I point...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c302 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that it is a political problem that requires a political solution. There is ...

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James Morris | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that we are rapidly approaching a tipping point with Iran and that ...

Philip Hollobone | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) Are sanctions against Iran likely to work unless China and Russia both get involved?

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c305 (Link to this contribution) Russia and China are involved in the current framework of United Nations sanctions, which is approve...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c299 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of announcements made by Prime Minister Netanyahu. Nevertheless, I say to my hon. Friend ...

Richard Ottaway | 535 c296 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has confirmed that the IAEA will be publishing a critical report on Iran's nuc...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c298-9 (Link to this contribution) It is certainly true that the behaviour of Iran makes peace in the middle east a much more difficult...

Bob Ainsworth | 535 c299 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that there is little chance of a united international, and there...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c299 (Link to this contribution) There is a lot in what the right hon. Gentleman says. It is very important that strong international...

Robert Halfon | 535 c299 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend aware that, as reported in The Wall Street Journal, Prime Minister Netanyahu...

Gerald Kaufman | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) As it is clearly a waste of time asking the right hon. Gentleman to reverse his deplorable decision ...

Duncan Hames | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary is more patient than I am in waiting for the Israeli Government to return to m...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) It would not be in the interests of the United Kingdom for the Foreign Secretary, whoever that may b...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) We do raise human rights cases with Turkey and I will certainly consider the cases that the hon. Gen...

Tony Lloyd | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary rightly drew attention to our need to have dialogue with the Arab League, and ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c303 (Link to this contribution) The difference of judgment is on whether voting for the application in the current situation at the ...

Daniel Kawczynski | 535 c303 (Link to this contribution) This year, although on separate occasions, my right hon. Friend and I were the first British MPs to ...

Ann Clwyd | 535 c303 (Link to this contribution) One hundred and seven hon. Members from across this House have signed a motion in support of Palesti...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 535 c302 (Link to this contribution) Many people listening to the statement will be very surprised that the Foreign Secretary devoted so ...

Matthew Offord | 535 c302 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that the conflict is a political one that can be resolved only at t...

Joan Ruddock | 535 c302 (Link to this contribution) But surely the Foreign Secretary must understand that an abstention in these circumstances is equiva...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c302 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not agree with that. President Abbas has always understood that such an application would n...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c301-2 (Link to this contribution) We will not vote against it, for the reasons I gave in my statement. I disagree with my hon. Friend ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) Certainly some of our Arab Partnership fund is going towards that. In Egypt, for instance, we are he...

Meg Munn | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) The importance of involving women in post-conflict situations is well known. Will the Foreign Secret...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) We are entering a more dangerous phase—let me put it that way. When the IAEA report is officially pu...

Mike Gapes | 535 c305-6 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware that some countries believe that Britain and France should not h...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c305 (Link to this contribution) We always raise this issue with the emerging powers of the world. The position of such countries is ...

Speaker | 535 c288 (Link to this contribution) Order. I appeal to Members who are leaving the Chamber to do so quickly and quietly, so that the Hou...

Douglas Alexander | 535 c291-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for his statement, although the fact that it has been made today, redu...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c294-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful, as ever, to the right hon. Gentleman. He asked about a report on a different subject,...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c296 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is the urgency of the situation. I hope no one in the world...

Ben Bradshaw | 535 c296 (Link to this contribution) I commend the Foreign Secretary for making his announcement on Palestinian statehood to the House fi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c296-7 (Link to this contribution) As I said, I think that will be the position of many of our partners and many members of the Securit...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 535 c297 (Link to this contribution) I fully support everything my right hon. Friend said about Syria, Libya, Iran and Bahrain, but I hop...

Jack Straw | 535 c297 (Link to this contribution) I endorse entirely the remarks of the right hon. and learned Member for North East Fife (Sir Menzies...

Louise Ellman | 535 c298 (Link to this contribution) I support the Foreign Secretary's view that only direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestin...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 535 c298 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the UN and the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c298 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady's point is related to the one I am making, which is that we should not encourage the i...

Speaker | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) Marvellous.

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c299-300 (Link to this contribution) There are two points to respond to. It is certainly entirely wrong to respond to votes such as the o...

David Winnick | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) The Iranian regime is dreadful. Its tyrannies are is notorious and we all condemn it—at least I hope...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) Well, it will not last for ever. I do not think the Israeli Government regard me—or the position of ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the right hon. Gentleman says about the legacy issues. Of course, we will continue to...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) Yes. As I emphasised to the right hon. Member for Coventry North East (Mr Ainsworth), the former Sec...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) It is always right to warn against all the unknowable consequences in any situation of military acti...

Hywel Williams | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary call on the Turkish Government to end their criminalisation of legitimate...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is quoting me back at myself in what I have said about the strengths of our intervent...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend blazed a trail by being the first British MP to go to Mauritania in a very long time....

Martin Horwood | 535 c304 (Link to this contribution) I strongly welcome the Foreign Secretary's support for enhanced but peaceful pressure on Iran. Will ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c303 (Link to this contribution) There is an enormous opportunity to create much stronger economic and trading links between the whol...

Robin Walker | 535 c303 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary was right to say that Tunisia has set an example of what can be achieved peace...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c302-3 (Link to this contribution) I have set all that out already, so I do not want to repeat myself. I covered a very wide range of s...

Speaker | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to disappoint colleagues, but the statement has run for just over an hour and we m...

Denis MacShane | 535 c305 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that all women doctors should be released from Bahraini prisons, th...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c305 (Link to this contribution) We want human rights to be fully respected in Bahrain. It is wrong of the right hon. Gentleman to sa...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c306 (Link to this contribution) No, and I assure the hon. Gentleman that I will never agree to an EU seat at the United Nations Secu...

Jo Swinson | 535 c305 (Link to this contribution) Iran's continued nuclear weapons programme and the rising tensions in Israel constitute a terrifying...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c288-91 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker. The House will welcome an update on events in the middle east, including the...

Speaker | 535 c296 (Link to this contribution) Order. A great many right hon. and hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. If I am to accommodate ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c297 (Link to this contribution) Clearly I disagree with my right hon. and learned Friend on that point. British interests are in a n...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c298 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend well appreciates, Palestinians are in a different situation. We strongly sup...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c297-8 (Link to this contribution) I did not notice under the previous Government a dramatic recognition of Palestine or support for it...

Nick Boles | 535 c298 (Link to this contribution) Is it not the case that the UN process is a distraction from the biggest obstacle to what we all wan...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is stretching north Africa down in a southern and eastward direction. He has written ...

Richard Burden | 535 c299 (Link to this contribution) Does the Foreign Secretary agree that Palestine's bid for membership of the United Nations is a lawf...

David Tredinnick | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend re-evaluate the travel ban in parts of Kenya, particularly in Malindi, whi...

Speaker | 535 c300 (Link to this contribution) My geography may be at fault, but I do not think it is. The Foreign Secretary is a wise man and he w...

Andrew Percy | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary's statement seemed to focus very much on the actions of Israel rather than on ...

Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome what the Foreign Secretary said about addressing legacy issues arising from the Gaddaf...

Stephen Phillips | 535 c301 (Link to this contribution) Two matters are now clear beyond peradventure in relation to Iran. First, that Iran is in the proces...

Subjects

Armed forces Armed conflict Nuclear weapons Nuclear power Politics and government Recognition of states Sanctions Israel Diplomatic relations Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Yemen Peace negotiations EU external relations Oppression Egypt Libya Tunisia Military aid North Africa Bahrain

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