Parliamentary search - North Africa and the Middle East

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

525 c1113-30

Session

2010-12

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

John Baron | 525 c1121 (Link to this contribution) With unrest spreading throughout the region and civilian casualties rising at the hands of autocrati...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) I must again stress something that the Prime Minister has explained: just because we cannot do every...

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Keith Vaz | 525 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Both the Foreign Secretary and the shadow Foreign Secretary have spoken about the critical situation...

Lord Arbuthnot of Edrom | 525 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend say something about the relationship between the action we are taking in L...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1121 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has made the position on this clear. It was precisely in order to be able to deal...

Ben Bradshaw | 525 c1120 (Link to this contribution) Is it not clear, given the brutal suppression of protests in Bahrain, that most Gulf countries do no...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1120 (Link to this contribution) We do need to be consistent, but we also need to recognise where countries make reform efforts. If I...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 525 c1120 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my right hon. Friend will excuse me if I press him a little further on the issue of comm...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1120 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend is absolutely right to point out that the discussions about this is...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) Yes, there is a role, but a peaceful resolution would require the Gaddafi regime to observe resoluti...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1113-5 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement updating the House on the actions we ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1117-9 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the right hon. Gentleman and for the continued strong unity across the Floor o...

Douglas Alexander | 525 c1115-7 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his statement and for allowing me advance sight of it this morn...

Richard Ottaway | 525 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's statement and, in particular, his point about sanctions being stre...

Speaker | 525 c1119 (Link to this contribution) Order. Many colleagues are seeking to catch my eye, but the House might like to know that no fewer t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1119 (Link to this contribution) We are continuing to review the position and I do not have a new announcement to make to the House o...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1129 (Link to this contribution) Operations have been directed against military forces or against the command and control of those fo...

Thomas Docherty | 525 c1129 (Link to this contribution) Given the vital nature of sustaining the coalition, may I press the Foreign Secretary to clarify for...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1128-9 (Link to this contribution) These assets belong to the people of Libya, and so in all normal circumstances—if we can describe an...

Jonathan Edwards | 525 c1129 (Link to this contribution) Now that the no-fly zone is operational, does the Secretary of State agree that there is little just...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1130 (Link to this contribution) The logic is that it will still be possible to get an arrest warrant if there is a reasonable chance...

Ann Clwyd | 525 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Next week the Government intend to change the law on universal jurisdiction, making it more difficul...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Those are perfectly legitimate questions, but slightly in advance of where we have got to. My right ...

Dan Jarvis | 525 c1130 (Link to this contribution) May I push the Foreign Secretary a little further on any international stabilisation force? What is ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) As I mentioned earlier, there is a regular meeting in Brussels between contributing nations—represen...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that in this situation it is helpful to get into all the hypothetical scenarios of wha...

Alec Shelbrooke | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on the work that he not just did, but continues to do, with...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend draws attention to another point of tension in the middle east, one that I discussed ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Qatari forces are taking part in the enforcement of the no-fly zone.

Cathy Jamieson | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) With specific reference to the Foreign Secretary's update on the involvement of the Arab League, wil...

Duncan Hames | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) In these troubled times, Governments are swift to announce asset freezes for these astonishingly wea...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Yes—basically. It is important to have regard to all elements of the resolution and to ensure that a...

Mark Durkan | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) I join the Foreign Secretary in condemning the terrorist murder in Jerusalem, and equally the deadly...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) No. Of course, we support the territorial integrity of Libya; I stress, though, that it is our milit...

Peter Bone | 525 c1128 (Link to this contribution) Would the House be correct in interpreting the Foreign Secretary as saying, in effect, that if there...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1125-6 (Link to this contribution) The sectarian aspect of the problems in Bahrain is very, deeply worrying, particularly if the stand-...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Yes. My hon. Friend is quite right, because overarching all that we have discussed in today's statem...

Andy Slaughter | 525 c1126 (Link to this contribution) With so much international attention focused on Libya for obvious reasons, other regimes in the regi...

Speaker | 525 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Order. We have quite a few Members standing, so could we have shorter questions and shorter answers?...

Jo Swinson | 525 c1126 (Link to this contribution) The scale of the foreign policy challenge in the middle east and in north Africa is immense, with th...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) I cannot see—so many Government throughout the world have said this so many times over the past few ...

Lord Watts | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) Given the responses to earlier questions, how would the Government deal with a situation where it be...

Lord Tyrie | 525 c1127 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary said that it was desirable for Gaddafi to go. Given what we know about Gaddafi...

Martin Horwood | 525 c1124 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's statement, particularly the positive news of contact with the inte...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1125 (Link to this contribution) The steps that we can take at the moment are diplomatic steps to make it clear to the Syrian Governm...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1124 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will be aware that more than 100 licences have been revoked in the case of Libya, tha...

Geoffrey Robinson | 525 c1124 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Foreign Secretary for the promptness and fullness of his briefing to the House? We l...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1124 (Link to this contribution) As I said in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Mr Leigh), we will stick very str...

Tony Baldry | 525 c1124 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend was right to underscore the Government's support for the work of the Internatio...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1124-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point, and every time we make that point we are doing what he is c...

Natascha Engel | 525 c1125 (Link to this contribution) What, to the Foreign Secretary, does operational success in Libya actually look like? Further to tha...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1125 (Link to this contribution) It means the implementation of the UN resolution. I cannot stress this strongly enough—that we opera...

Robert Halfon | 525 c1125 (Link to this contribution) The country will welcome my right hon. Friend's remarks about the tragic loss of the innocent Britis...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 525 c1123 (Link to this contribution) Since Turkey has said it would supply ships and submarines to enforce the arms embargo, that leaves ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1123 (Link to this contribution) Yes, Germany will be invited. It is a crucial partner of this country in the European Union and in N...

Edward Leigh | 525 c1123 (Link to this contribution) On that very point about the Gaddafi regime continuing, some of us were briefed this week by the BBC...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1123 (Link to this contribution) Almost, as it is not just the people of Benghazi we need to protect. Although UN resolution 1973 spe...

David Winnick | 525 c1122-3 (Link to this contribution) Like everyone else, I deplore Gaddafi's continued military offensive, which undoubtedly is costing t...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1123 (Link to this contribution) I think that the whole world is pretty much united on urging Gaddafi not only to stop the fighting, ...

Julian Lewis | 525 c1122 (Link to this contribution) When the Government decided to withdraw the last of our carriers and the Harrier force with it, they...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1122 (Link to this contribution) No. I have urgent discussions every hour or so with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for ...

Gerald Kaufman | 525 c1122 (Link to this contribution) In condemning utterly the barbarous attack on the bus stop in Jerusalem, with the consequent loss of...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1122 (Link to this contribution) As the right hon. Gentleman will have heard in my statement, I condemn all those attacks and the dea...

Graham Stringer | 525 c1125 (Link to this contribution) I have received strong representations from the Shi'a community in Cheetham Hill and Crumpsall in my...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1126-7 (Link to this contribution) In answer to earlier questions, I have made clear the position on Israelis and on Palestinians, and ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 525 c1121 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will absolutely respond to the right hon. Gentleman's urging. As he well knows, there has bee...

Mike Gapes | 525 c1119 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary mentioned the meeting to be held in London and said that the African Union wil...

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British nationals abroad

Deployment

Politics and government

Military aircraft

Violence

USA

UN resolutions

NATO

Civil disorder

Syria

Middle East

Yemen

Libya

League of Arab States

North Africa

Bahrain

Ceasefires

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