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Syria

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Parliamentary proceeding

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540 c23-42 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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Proceeding contributions

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c42 (Link to this contribution) Many people may share my hon. Friend's view about the views expressed by dual nationals in this coun...

Philip Hollobone | 540 c42 (Link to this contribution) What role can Jordan play in helping to resolve this crisis?

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Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) We keep a very close eye on any reports of the presence of chemical or biological weapons. I have no...

Lord Harrington of Watford | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) Is the Foreign Secretary aware of reports of chemical weapons and other weaponry being moved by Hezb...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c41 (Link to this contribution) The upcoming elections may be a factor in the Russian veto. I think that a stronger factor is that t...

Andrew Bridgen | 540 c41 (Link to this contribution) The impending elections in Russia and a weakened Mr Putin keen to bolster his domestic opinion polls...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c41 (Link to this contribution) Like my hon. Friend, I welcome the fact that India voted for the resolution. It is true that several...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 540 c41 (Link to this contribution) It is clearly welcome news that India came off the fence and supported the resolution, marking an en...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c42 (Link to this contribution) The answer is that many of those groups have come together under the umbrella of the Syrian National...

Rehman Chishti | 540 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement by the Foreign Secretary. He will know that there are more than 30 oppositio...

Sajid Javid | 540 c42 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Foreign Secretary on another aspect of dual nationality? Many of the most energetic ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c42 (Link to this contribution) Jordan is playing a strong and constructive role. I discussed the situation a couple of hours ago wi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I have covered those points. We are not engaged, and are not planning to engage, in armi...

John Baron | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) We all wish the Foreign Secretary well in his endeavours, but may I press him in suggesting that the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) We are still making an assessment of that. Clearly, it was only on Saturday that the resolution was ...

Stephen Gilbert | 540 c39 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentioned the possibility of securing a resolution at the United Nations Genera...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c39 (Link to this contribution) We will have to see how the opposition groups develop. We are urging them to come together, but I st...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 540 c39 (Link to this contribution) The actions of this despotic regime are merely the culmination of 30 years of human rights abuses un...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c39 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I very much agree. People have access to media reports, particularly those carried by Arab sate...

Phillip Lee | 540 c39 (Link to this contribution) I have had the privilege of visiting Syria twice in my life: once in 1998 with a backpack on my back...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) Well, it is in any case the arrangement within the European Union that countries will provide assist...

Robert Halfon | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what my right hon. Friend has done thus far, but, just as we were right to intervene in Li...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c40 (Link to this contribution) This is not an excuse for Russia and China, and as I pointed out earlier other nations that were ver...

Peter Tapsell | 540 c28 (Link to this contribution) I am certain that the Foreign Secretary needs no point of information from me, but may I nevertheles...

Tony Lloyd | 540 c29 (Link to this contribution) During the course of the Foreign Secretary's conversations in New York, was the subject of the Inter...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) I cannot imagine ever not needing a point of information from my right hon. Friend. He has a deep kn...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c29 (Link to this contribution) They are very serious crimes, and that is a wholly legitimate question. The hon. Gentleman will know...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c23-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I will make a statement on Syria. The whole House will be appalled by t...

Douglas Alexander | 540 c25-7 (Link to this contribution) I welcome this opportunity for the House to discuss the situation in Syria, and I am grateful that t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman, who has referred, rightly, to the bloodshed over the last...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) The Assad regime certainly feels that. As we have discussed before, Iran has certainly given active ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 540 c30 (Link to this contribution) One country singularly absent from the Foreign Secretary's statement was Iran. Will he say a little ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c31 (Link to this contribution) Well, I think that is what we have. I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for saying that he cou...

Denis MacShane | 540 c31 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary cannot be faulted in the handling of this crisis and, if I may say so, his Min...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c31 (Link to this contribution) That is bilateral and multilateral. I have already mentioned some of the bilateral contact we have h...

Richard Ottaway | 540 c31 (Link to this contribution) I share the Foreign Secretary's approach and urge him to maintain the political, economic and diplom...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c30 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that I shall get into party matters during this Government statement. We emphatically...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 540 c30 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear that the exercise of the veto by any permanent member of the Security Council always...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) I think that that is true; I agree with my right hon. and learned Friend. This is why I have used st...

Chris Bryant | 540 c30 (Link to this contribution) With journalists being murdered with impunity and elections being rigged, is not Russia rapidly turn...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c30 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with my right hon. Friend, as he could gather from my earlier replies. This is wh...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c32 (Link to this contribution) This idea has been floated, although I think more in the media than by any of the Governments concer...

Ann Clwyd | 540 c32 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has talked about the importance of Turkey. In his discussion with the Foreign ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c32 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting question. As far as we could see at the Security Council negotiations last Fr...

Lord Soames of Fletching | 540 c32 (Link to this contribution) I applaud the Foreign Secretary for the vigorous and energetic way in which he and his colleagues ar...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c33 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely; we always take a close interest in what is happening in Lebanon, and Syria has indeed be...

Mike Gapes | 540 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome and endorse the Foreign Secretary's remarks about taking action through the European Union...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c33 (Link to this contribution) As I mentioned, I do not rule that out. If we were to do that, I would like us to act in concert wit...

Julian Brazier | 540 c33 (Link to this contribution) A very dear friend of mine and his five-year-old son were butchered by the Assad regime in the days ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c33 (Link to this contribution) I disagree with my hon. Friend, in that I do not think that what happened in Libya provides an alibi...

Caroline Lucas | 540 c33 (Link to this contribution) Tunisia, the first Arab country to be liberated from a despot in the Arab spring, is expelling its S...

Edward Leigh | 540 c32 (Link to this contribution) While Assad's actions are evil and those of the Russians and Chinese are woeful—my right hon. Friend...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that it is. I say so, first, because if NATO began planning for different eventualiti...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows—again, we have discussed this in the House many times—the position on this. We ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) I will give consideration to all the points that are being raised about Russia—that is, I think, the...

David Winnick | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) Although the action of Russia and China is completely inexcusable, and no one in this House has trie...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) In my view, the resolution on Libya—resolution 1973—was faithfully implemented. If I remember rightl...

David Winnick | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) indicated assent.

Speaker | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) Order. We are grateful to the Foreign Secretary for dealing with that point. Perhaps we can now keep...

Baroness Berger | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) What is the Foreign Secretary's assessment of the prospects of Russia agreeing to impose an arms emb...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) There is not much prospect at the moment of Russia agreeing to an arms embargo—that is the straight ...

Roger Gale | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) Given the cynicism of Russia's veto of the draft resolution at the weekend, and the bloodshed since,...

Mark Pritchard | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) Notwithstanding the Foreign Secretary's earlier comments on the International Criminal Court, if the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) Yes, he did. So, we are united in agreeing with that resolution. I do not think that it provides an ...

Seema Malhotra | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State update the House on measures being taken to ensure the safety of British...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) For a long time—for many months—we have said that British nationals should not travel to Syria and t...

Conor Burns | 540 c36 (Link to this contribution) I wish the Foreign Secretary well in his ongoing discussions with China, for if the use of the veto ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I would love it if that were the message conveyed by Sergei Lavrov when he goes tomorrow, and my hon...

Chi Onwurah | 540 c36 (Link to this contribution) On Friday, I attended a fundraiser in Newcastle at which over £30,000 was raised to provide humanita...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c35 (Link to this contribution) Yes. My hon. Friend makes a valid and legitimate point. In any case, it is not possible at the momen...

Paul Goggins | 540 c37 (Link to this contribution) What assessment has the Foreign Secretary made of reports over the weekend that Abu Musab al-Suri, w...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c37 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I absolutely agree. This is an important consideration for the Russian authorities and it is no...

Jeremy Corbyn | 540 c37 (Link to this contribution) The killings, murders and disorder in Syria are obviously dreadful and must be condemned. Notwithsta...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) We shall certainly continue to have discussions with Russia, as I have mentioned many times, but I d...

Claire O'Neill | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) It is always the innocent who suffer in these situations, and anyone who has seen or heard of the co...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) We are down to the smallest level of representation we can have that is consistent with diplomatic r...

Julian Lewis | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) While the immediate priority must obviously be to maximise pressure to put an end to the slaughter, ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) As I said in answer to the hon. Member for Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn), there are many shades of...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c37 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it would. I am awaiting reliable information about that. Clearly, the announcement was not desi...

Jo Swinson | 540 c37 (Link to this contribution) Russia is inflicting a double blow on the Syrian people through its UN veto and by continuing the $1...

Bob Russell | 540 c34 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's warm words about the countries of the Arab League. With the eyes o...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with deep experience of these matters. Certainly, any future discussion about ...

Daniel Byles | 540 c38 (Link to this contribution) May I press the Foreign Secretary on the issue of UK nationals and those holding dual nationality? W...

Malcolm Rifkind | 540 c29 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary consider speaking to the Russian Foreign Minister before Mr Lavrov goes t...

Bob Stewart | 540 c36 (Link to this contribution) Having sat in the middle of a so-called protected area that was totally unprotected, may I re-emphas...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 540 c36 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady and her constituents on the funds they have been raising, and I shall d...

Subjects

Demonstrations Diplomatic service China Human rights Politics and government Violence UN resolutions Sanctions Russia Syria UN Security Council League of Arab States

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