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Middle East

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

736 c573-624 

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2012-0664
Monday, 16 April 2012
Deposited papers
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Lord Anderson of Swansea | 736 c585-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome this long-awaited debate and congratulate the Minister as usual on his tour d’ho...

Viscount Eccles | 736 c584-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in following my noble friend, I agree with her that if you look at any subject in Israel, ...

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Lord Howell of Guildford | 736 c573 (Link to this contribution) That this House takes note of recent developments in the Middle East.

Lord Howell of Guildford | 736 c573-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the purpose of this debate is to reflect on the momentous events of the past 15 months in ...

Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean | 736 c577-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the debate and for the comprehensive and very helpful...

Lord Luce | 736 c580-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Symons, and her formidable tour d’horizo...

Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 736 c582-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, thank the Minister for his expansive coverage of the countries of the Middle East ...

Lord Soley | 736 c604-6 (Link to this contribution) I wish to address my brief comments to trends in the region and how we can be a positive influence o...

Baroness Deech | 736 c602-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was with considerable optimism that we greeted the start of the so-called Arab spring a...

Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne | 736 c600-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, one recent development in the Middle East was the peaceful transfer of power in the Republ...

Lord Palmer of Childs Hill | 736 c597-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Iran threatens world stability and the very existence of Israel. My noble friend Lady Falk...

Lord Hughes of Woodside | 736 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, anyone who has seen the reports on television and elsewhere about Syria must be appalled a...

Lord Chidgey | 736 c593-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, noble Lords have referred to a number of factors that could be argued to have defined the ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 736 c595-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, anyone who believed that the events of the Arab spring, which I would rather see described...

Lord Clinton-Davis | 736 c590-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, undoubtedly the Middle East is a highly complex, incendiary and volatile area, where peace...

Baroness Berridge | 736 c591-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a member of the advisory council for the charity that supports th...

Lord Wright of Richmond | 736 c587-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the time available I propose to concentrate on Syria and the Middle East peace process....

Baroness Tonge | 736 c621 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way but I must point out—I hope that he agrees—that the raining of m...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 736 c618-21 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as I and, I think, others will have anticipated, this has been a debate of many points of ...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 736 c621-4 (Link to this contribution) I will not go further into the argument of where it stands. There is of course an earlier riposte to...

Lord Hylton | 736 c606-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Soley, about the importance of soft power in the Middle ...

Lord Bew | 736 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like first to thank the noble Lord, Lord Howell, for his masterly introduction to...

Lord Haskel | 736 c608-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rarely trouble your Lordships with foreign affairs but I want to add my voice to those u...

Lord Williams of Baglan | 736 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly welcome this debate, initiated by the Minister, the noble Lord, Lord Howell. I ...

Baroness Tonge | 736 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I speak about recent developments in Palestine, I want to put on record two persona...

Lord Ramsbotham | 736 c613-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, congratulate the Minister on the masterly introductory tour d’horizon to what has ...

Lord Rosser | 736 c615-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been an interesting and informative debate about a complex, diverse and less than...

Lord Avebury | 736 c588-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the opportunity to say a few words bout the dire situation in Bahrain, which has...

Subjects

Demonstrations Development aid Elections Human rights Economic situation Nuclear weapons Politics and government Violence Israel Turkey Palestine Iran Syria Middle East Yemen Peace negotiations Morocco Egypt Libya Tunisia Algeria North Africa Bahrain

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