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My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Warsi, for opening this important and very timely debate today, and for doing so with her customary openness and breadth of knowledge on the Middle East. May I direct your Lordships to my entry in the register of interests as chairman of...

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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
Type
Proceeding contributions
Date
27 February 2014
Reference
752 cc1017-9
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House of Lords

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend Lord Corbett of Castle Vale for initiating this debate. Like so many of your Lordships, I begin by saying something about human rights in Iran. The punishments of political prisoners and those found guilty of criminal offences are truly appalling, from the...

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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
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Proceeding contributions
Date
30 November 2010
Reference
722 c128-9GC
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House of Lords
My Lords, does the Minister not agree that, irrespective of our legal obligations, we have an enduring obligation to the people in Camp Ashraf, as the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, indicated? After all, we do not hand anyone over to any sovereign power if we think that they would be tortured or in any other way mistreated. Does the Minister believe that there is any truth in the allegations that United States officials are not allowed into Camp Ashraf for inspections? I am pleased to hear that our officials have been allowed in, but will he assure us that they will continue to visit the camp? Is there any hope that in the future there will be UN inspectors in Camp Ashraf, as the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, rightly requested?
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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
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Date
25 October 2010
Reference
721 c1030
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House of Lords

My Lords, I, too, welcome the fact that the noble Lord, Lord Fowler, tabled this debate—not least because Iraq remains a matter of huge and continuing importance in our domestic and international politics. As I understand it, the noble Lord has argued that, as a supporter of the war originally,...

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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
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Proceeding contributions
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24 January 2008
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698 c358-60
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House of Lords

My Lords, I ask the noble Lord to reflect on his point that the Government claimed that there were links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. That point was actually made from the Front Bench of the Conservative Party and explicitly denied by the Front Bench on this side of the...

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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
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Proceeding contributions
Date
24 January 2008
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698 c370
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House of Lords
My Lords, one major concern about the treatment of refugees and displaced people seems to be the lack of a co-ordinated approach from the United Nations, the operation coming partly out of Baghdad and partly out of Jordan. Is the United Kingdom in any position to help improve co-ordination of the humanitarian effort and, if so, what can we do?
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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean (Labour)
Oral questions - Supplementary
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Answered
Date
21 January 2008
Reference
698 c4
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House of Lords

Whether they have studied the revised preliminary draft report of the Council of Europe's Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography of 20 April on the humanitarian situation of the Kurdish refugees and displaced persons in south-east Turkey and north Iraq; and whether they agree with its conclusions. [HL2436].

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Lord Hylton (Crossbench)
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Written questions
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Answered
Date
6 July 1998
Reference
591 c102WA
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House of Lords

Lords debate on unstarred question on programme of work for the UN Human Rights Commission.

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Lord Avebury
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Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Type
Questions for short debate
Date
17 March 1998
Reference
587 c640-57
House
House of Lords