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Debate on Monday, 28 November 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was Douglas Alexander.

North Africa and the Near and Middle East

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of political developments in the Middle East; North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa. Motion lapsed.

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Parliamentary proceeding
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536 c677-770 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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House of Commons chamber
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Palestine
Monday, 19 December 2011
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Proceeding contributions
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c738 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises a particularly pertinent point about the operations of the Foreign Office. He ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c678 (Link to this contribution) I imagine that the right hon. Gentleman, who has a long-standing interest in these matters, wants to...
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Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c734 (Link to this contribution) Surely my hon. Friend must acknowledge and accept that the recent intervention in Libya was a great ...
Nick Boles | 536 c691 (Link to this contribution) I apologise in advance if I am becoming somewhat repetitive on this subject, but did the Foreign Sec...
Mark Lazarowicz | 536 c765 (Link to this contribution) Another reason for urgency is that, unfortunately, despite the efforts by the international communit...
Lord Spellar | 536 c763-5 (Link to this contribution) It has certainly been a wide-ranging and interesting debate. We had the Foreign Secretary and the ho...
Bob Stewart | 536 c761 (Link to this contribution) I was indeed young once—it is almost the start of a song. When I lived in Bahrain it was a very diff...
Alistair Burt | 536 c767-70 (Link to this contribution) May I pay tribute to the House for yet another interesting debate on this important subject, which w...
Lord Spellar | 536 c765-7 (Link to this contribution) I fully agree with my hon. Friend. That is why we particularly welcome the support for the beleaguer...
Bob Stewart | 536 c756 (Link to this contribution) I was always under the impression that the basic rule is that if the national jurisdiction decides t...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c754-6 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that we are having this debate. I shall endeavour not to take too long so that time is ...
Bob Russell | 536 c758 (Link to this contribution) As we approach the anniversary of the birth of Christ, does the hon. Gentleman agree that today Jose...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c679 (Link to this contribution) They have been invited, as I have just been reminded by the Minister for Africa, my hon. Friend the ...
Lord Spellar | 536 c679 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary spoke of putting guards on merchant vessels. That was announced at the end of ...
Gerald Kaufman | 536 c680 (Link to this contribution) On the Western Sahara, are there any developments at all in respect of the referendum? It was a long...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c680 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend was, I think, the first Member of Parliament to visit Mauritania in a long time, and ...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c680 (Link to this contribution) When my right hon. Friend was in Mauritania, I hope he had a chance to listen to its concerns about ...
Mike Gapes | 536 c678 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary said that he had met members of the transitional Government and the leaders of...
William Bain | 536 c761-3 (Link to this contribution) It is always a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Beckenham (Bob Stewart). I congratulate him on...
Stephen Phillips | 536 c750 (Link to this contribution) I will happily give way to my hon. Friend, but I think that attempt was a little tongue in cheek. O...
Gerald Kaufman | 536 c746-9 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this year, I was in Tunisia, where, in addition to having talks with members of the temporar...
Adam Holloway | 536 c744 (Link to this contribution) Just after the fall of Tripoli, I, with the director of the Conservative Middle East Council, went o...
Laura Sandys | 536 c743-4 (Link to this contribution) It is a great honour to follow not only the poetry of my hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The ...
Laura Sandys | 536 c742 (Link to this contribution) I started working with the Iraqi opposition in 1993, and it was 10 years before Saddam Hussein was o...
Mike Gapes | 536 c740-1 (Link to this contribution) At this moment we need to give the Egyptians the benefit of the doubt because the process is still d...
Edward Leigh | 536 c740 (Link to this contribution) The plight of Christians in the middle east is desperate and many of our actions have made that plig...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c736 (Link to this contribution) With respect to my hon. Friend and the House, I have always said in relation to these issues that li...
Rory Stewart | 536 c736 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more—it certainly allows us to have a great deal of information. However, at the f...
Rory Stewart | 536 c737 (Link to this contribution) I could not agree more. This is not an either/or situation. I am deliberately being somewhat, or eve...
Mike Gapes | 536 c739-40 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory Stewart) but I shall not go ...
Bob Stewart | 536 c733 (Link to this contribution) Were you there snorkelling, too?
Rory Stewart | 536 c733-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very good point, but the problem is not our desire or our commitment to the m...
Rory Stewart | 536 c734 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely, yet it was, to quote the Duke of Wellington, a ““damn close run thing””. We stre...
Mike Gapes | 536 c734 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman's remarks about the overstretch in the Foreign and Commonwealth Offi...
Laura Sandys | 536 c735 (Link to this contribution) If we think about what we used to do under the colonial service, although that has lots of negative ...
Rory Stewart | 536 c734-5 (Link to this contribution) I would agree absolutely if I did not fear that Europe itself is hollowing out its foreign services ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c736 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows, probably better than anyone in this House, the extent to which modern media an...
Mike Gapes | 536 c731 (Link to this contribution) I was going to comment on Hamas, but I think that has been dealt with by others. I can, however, con...
Louise Ellman | 536 c732-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. I do not refer to the whole of the British media. I mad...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c732 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady has alluded to references in sections of the British media. My concern is ensuring tha...
Louise Ellman | 536 c728 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that those activities are helpful to the quest for peace. I think that the only way i...
Louise Ellman | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) It would be highly desirable for Hamas to change its position. Indeed, it is essential that it does ...
Louise Ellman | 536 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments. The state of Israel came about because it was international...
Richard Burden | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) I think I might differ with my hon. Friend on her history of what happened in relation to Northern I...
Martin Horwood | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) But I am sure the hon. Lady will remember that the mantra during the Northern Ireland peace process ...
Bob Stewart | 536 c721 (Link to this contribution) I totally accept the hon. Gentleman's point but my simple worry is that if the military were not the...
Louise Ellman | 536 c727-8 (Link to this contribution) I acknowledge that the Palestinian Authority has played a constructive role in the attempt to make p...
Louise Ellman | 536 c726-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. I understand that Israel fervently wishes to maintain i...
Martin Horwood | 536 c727 (Link to this contribution) I understand the genuine anxieties that the hon. Lady is voicing. However, she must accept that Fata...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c711-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and we will be discussing that with them. A delegation of members of the Shura Council recentl...
Denis MacShane | 536 c713 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend comment on the case of the 26-year-old Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil, who is now...
Richard Burden | 536 c713-4 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend draws attention to a very brave individual, who is one of many in Tahrir square...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c715 (Link to this contribution) I compliment my hon. Friend on the huge amount of work that he has done for many years on the issues...
Richard Burden | 536 c715 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. The Shalit prisoner swap is a recent example, and there was enga...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c711 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend conscious of any attempts on the part of the Saudi Government to reform, if only a...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c711 (Link to this contribution) I am very pleased that the hon. Gentleman is going to Saudi Arabia with a substantial delegation. I ...
Rory Stewart | 536 c710 (Link to this contribution) Would my hon. Friend perhaps consider himself for that job?
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c710 (Link to this contribution) I am far too junior and inexperienced, but I am grateful for my hon. Friend's comment. I feel passi...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c709 (Link to this contribution) I will in a moment. I will move on to the rendition of Libyan citizens to Libya when Gaddafi was in...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c708 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises the issue of the Libyan monarchy. How likely is it, in his opinion, that the i...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c708 (Link to this contribution) Only two countries in the world have gone back to having a monarchy—I am sure that my hon. Friend kn...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c704 (Link to this contribution) What does the right hon. Lady say to the accusation that I have heard from some people in the region...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c702 (Link to this contribution) All of them ought to be horrified by it. China itself has a Muslim extremist minority on its western...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c690 (Link to this contribution) I will take three more interventions, and then I must conclude my remarks.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c690 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right to say that this requires the involvement of both sides. As I have often...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c689 (Link to this contribution) The position is the one that I have made clear many times before: we are not calling for military ac...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c688-9 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend can imagine, during the state visit of the President of Turkey last week the Turki...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) I will move on to Iran shortly, but I absolutely feel that it plays a negative role in the process a...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c698 (Link to this contribution) I was coming to that point. The hon. Gentleman is correct. There is something else that Jordan and M...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c698-9 (Link to this contribution) As it happens, I have met the Crown Prince of Libya in the past few months. It is, however, up to th...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c700 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. and learned Friend accept that as a consequence of the 25 January revolution and ...
Bob Stewart | 536 c702 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran would be horrific for the ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c700-2 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course, that has happened over the past few months, but it could be reversed if there were a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c691 (Link to this contribution) Yes, absolutely. As the hon. Lady knows, we have a long-standing position on this. We look to Israel...
Douglas Alexander | 536 c692-6 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the opportunity for the House to debate the Arab spring, the horn of Africa and the Sahel ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c691-2 (Link to this contribution) Apologising for being repetitive is a novel approach in this House which no one has ever adopted bef...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c685 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful for the right hon. Gentleman's kind remarks. I should particularly like to credit...
Keith Vaz | 536 c685 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate and thank the Foreign Secretary and the British Government for the patient diplom...
Wayne David | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) What representations are the Foreign Secretary and the Government making to the Chinese and Russian ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) We have done that. The Under-Secretary of State, my hon. Friend the Member for North East Bedfordshi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is a long time. The problem has been almost identical ever since when the right hon. Gentlem...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c682 (Link to this contribution) Is it not worth taking into account that although the Moroccan Islamist party may be the largest sin...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c682 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend makes a very important point and what he has described has indeed b...
Ann Clwyd | 536 c683 (Link to this contribution) Given what the Foreign Secretary has just said about Bahrain, is it appropriate—or was it appropriat...
Roger Gale | 536 c684 (Link to this contribution) May I ask about Egypt before my right hon. Friend moves on? Nobody would wish to offer any succour o...
Andrew Murrison | 536 c681 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend is about to discuss last Friday's general election in Morocco. W...
Bob Stewart | 536 c760-1 (Link to this contribution) I respect and rather like the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), but of course I canno...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c758-60 (Link to this contribution) I have been through the miserable experience of what ought to be a pleasant, if short, journey from ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c756-8 (Link to this contribution) Yes, that is my understanding. That is why I said that Saif does not have to be extradited to The Ha...
Stephen Phillips | 536 c750-2 (Link to this contribution) I have no doubt that whenever I speak in the Chamber, my hon. Friend the Member for Stone is watchin...
Stephen Phillips | 536 c752-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes an extremely valid point. Democracy may not be the best s...
David Rutley | 536 c752 (Link to this contribution) My hon. and learned Friend makes some important points. Countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Ba...
Stephen Phillips | 536 c749 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Member for Manchester, Gorton (Sir Gerald Kaufman) and I do not always agree on every...
Laura Sandys | 536 c744-6 (Link to this contribution) I very much welcome that intervention. That is the absolute core of the issue. We need not only to ...
Mike Gapes | 536 c742-3 (Link to this contribution) I agree. I think that we should be guided by some of Syria's neighbours. The Arab League has made an...
Rory Stewart | 536 c736 (Link to this contribution) This is a very tantalising and attractive argument and I can see exactly why it is made. Of course, ...
Adam Holloway | 536 c737 (Link to this contribution) In Afghanistan and, indeed, Iraq, I felt very sorry for the previous Government because one often ha...
Rory Stewart | 536 c737-8 (Link to this contribution) This is fundamental because we live in a world in which there is not enough challenge in the system....
Laura Sandys | 536 c736-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so generous with his time. Let us look at what the Pentagon did abo...
Rory Stewart | 536 c738-9 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Office has a very distinguished tradition of doing that. With many of the things it chal...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c733 (Link to this contribution) This is not a point about snorkelling. My hon. Friend the Member for Penrith and The Border (Rory St...
Rory Stewart | 536 c735 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good point. The analogy with the colonial period is a very dangerous one and we do no...
Louise Ellman | 536 c731 (Link to this contribution) The term Zionism means what it has always meant: a Jewish national movement for a Jewish national ho...
Louise Ellman | 536 c730 (Link to this contribution) The state of Israel exists, and has every right to exist. Indeed, I know of no other country in the ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c730 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady mentions Zionism in the context of the creation of the state of Israel, but does she r...
David Mowat | 536 c730 (Link to this contribution) I was particularly interested in the hon. Lady's recent comments about how Israel came into existenc...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c733 (Link to this contribution) I am particularly grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way—
Rory Stewart | 536 c733 (Link to this contribution) How very jealous George Canning would have been in 1823 to see the scope and ambition of this debate...
Louise Ellman | 536 c731-2 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his comments and agree with what he said. I am also increasingly concern...
Richard Burden | 536 c728 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend is not happy about the reference to the United Nations—she and I disagree...
Bob Stewart | 536 c728-9 (Link to this contribution) As a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross, my wife used to have to deal with Ham...
Louise Ellman | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments. Sinn Fein only became part of the peace process—indeed,...
Martin Horwood | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) Is there not an instructive example from our own country, however, in the way in which we drew Sinn ...
Louise Ellman | 536 c729 (Link to this contribution) The whole process brought about changes, but there was only acceptance when Sinn Fein changed its po...
Martin Horwood | 536 c721-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right, but certain fundamental principles ought to inform transitions to democ...
Martin Horwood | 536 c720-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Birmingham, Northfield (Richard Burden). It was certa...
Louise Ellman | 536 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) I certainly hope that the aspirations of the people of the region that have been raised by the Arab ...
Kwasi Kwarteng | 536 c726 (Link to this contribution) Given what is happening in Egypt at the moment, what is the hon. Lady's sense of the Israeli positio...
Laura Sandys | 536 c725 (Link to this contribution) I believe that the timely publication and the ability for people to see the transparency will be imp...
Martin Horwood | 536 c725 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I certainly agree with that. What the report has highlighted about the Shi'a is particularly im...
Richard Burden | 536 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) I do not know how to follow the hon. Member for Shrewsbury and Atcham (Daniel Kawczynski), who is a ...
Louise Ellman | 536 c715 (Link to this contribution) I have listened carefully to the comments that my hon. Friend has made about Hamas's involvement in ...
Richard Burden | 536 c715-7 (Link to this contribution) That does not alter my view at all. My hon. Friend has illustrated precisely the point that I was ma...
Ann Clwyd | 536 c717 (Link to this contribution) Earlier this year, I was invited by the United Nations to a conference in Vienna on the inalienable ...
Richard Burden | 536 c717-20 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. The biggest number of accusations is for throwi...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c708-9 (Link to this contribution) I meant foreign countries. Spain and Cambodia are the two I was told about. To answer my hon. Friend...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c711 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman will be pleased to hear that there are more women going on the trip than men, whi...
Bob Stewart | 536 c709 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has moved on from what I was going to say, which is that the International Criminal C...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c709-10 (Link to this contribution) I agree; I said merely that I hoped ICC lawyers would be able to observe the proceedings. I have re...
Ann Clwyd | 536 c705-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for making those points, which I attempted to make to the Foreign Secretary e...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c707-8 (Link to this contribution) As chairman of the all-party group on Libya, I have campaigned for many years on that country, parti...
Ann Clwyd | 536 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is a little patient, I shall come to that point in a moment. The report also ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c705 (Link to this contribution) I compliment my right hon. Friend on her meeting with the ambassador and the efforts that she and Lo...
Ann Clwyd | 536 c702-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this debate on the middle east, an area in which many countries continue to undergo politi...
Richard Burden | 536 c690 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State confirm one thing and give his views on another? In relation to the Quar...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c690 (Link to this contribution) I am not aware that either side has yet presented proposals that meet the Quartet's requirements of ...
Lord Walney | 536 c690 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary make it crystal clear that both sides—Israelis and Palestinians—are requi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c689-90 (Link to this contribution) If the House will forgive me, I will not give way to hon. Members to whom I have given way before, b...
Graham Stringer | 536 c689 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary, who is being very generous in giving way. There is no doubt ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c689 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c689 (Link to this contribution) It is hard to know, of course, what lessons the Iranians have drawn from that, but we certainly have...
David Winnick | 536 c689 (Link to this contribution) The action that could be taken against the British ambassador is totally wrong and should indeed be ...
Rehman Chishti | 536 c688 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary will be aware of recent reports in Turkish national newspapers that the Turkis...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) I had better stop giving way so many times, but I will give way to my hon. Friend.
Rehman Chishti | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Mike Gapes | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary referred to the welcome decision by the Arab League, but I understand that at ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) I had better stop giving way to Members a second time, but I will do so once more.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c687 (Link to this contribution) We have discussed that at some length, as the hon. Gentleman can imagine. The Prime Minister and I d...
Mike Gapes | 536 c698 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. and learned Gentleman. Does he also accept that certainly in Jordan and ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) I begin by apologising for the fact that I will not be able to hear the winding-up speeches, but I l...
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c698 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that my right hon. and learned Friend is raising this issue. I would add that there are...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c699 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that there have been demonstrations criticising the mo...
Malcolm Rifkind | 536 c699-700 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that even in the monarchies there are human rights problems, including i...
Douglas Alexander | 536 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether this will encourage or dispirit my hon. Friend, but I can do little better tha...
Karen Buck | 536 c691 (Link to this contribution) Of course we all hope that there will be a triumph of hope over experience, with swifter action on t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c691 (Link to this contribution) I will give way twice more, as I said, and then I will conclude my speech.
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c696 (Link to this contribution) As my right hon. Friend knows, I am not in favour of anyone anywhere having nuclear weapons. He will...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c678 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I broadly agree with that. I think that it has made a great deal of progress. We have increased...
Tony Baldry | 536 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) It is commendable that my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary are organi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c680 (Link to this contribution) I did have discussions on that in Mauritania, as well as on my visits to Morocco and Algeria on the ...
Jeremy Corbyn | 536 c680 (Link to this contribution) During the Foreign Secretary's visit to Mauritania, did he have any discussions about the Western Sa...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c679 (Link to this contribution) The rules will follow briskly, but of course these things take time to organise. The fact that there...
Alun Michael | 536 c678 (Link to this contribution) I should like to develop the theme. I greatly welcome the approach that the Foreign Secretary is tak...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c677-8 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of political developments and security in t...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c678 (Link to this contribution) I met those representatives separately for many reasons, including the fact that one set were in Eth...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c684-5 (Link to this contribution) We have called for power to pass to a civilian Government as rapidly as possible, but also for elect...
Edward Leigh | 536 c685 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend comment on the report issued by the UN Secretary-General, which says that ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c685 (Link to this contribution) I give way to a right hon. Gentleman who has a long-standing interest in Yemen.
Daniel Kawczynski | 536 c686 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give me an assurance that his Department is doing everything possible to l...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c686 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is absolutely right about that. Members on all sides will be concerned by report...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c681-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend invites me neatly on to my next paragraph. As he rightly says, last week voters also ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c682-3 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. My hon. Friend makes a very important point and that is why we should not dismis...
Jo Swinson | 536 c682 (Link to this contribution) On that particular point, does the Foreign Secretary not accept that in Tunisia there were some conc...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 536 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) The abuses the commission talks about have taken place in recent months. I think that it is right—we...
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