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Ukraine

Debate on Tuesday, 18 March 2014, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was Douglas Alexander.
Motion to consider. Agreed to on question.
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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
577 cc649-700 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
European Scrutiny Committee nineteenth report with formal minutes.
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
European Scrutiny Committee fortieth report with formal minutes.
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
John Bercow | 577 c650 (Link to this contribution)

We now come to the main business: a general debate on Ukraine, for which there are three hours, p...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 cc650-1 (Link to this contribution)

I beg to move,

That this House has considered Ukraine.

The crisis in Ukraine is the m...


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Lord Bellingham | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way so early in his speech. Does he agree that ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

Yes. This was a vote in circumstances in which Crimea was occupied by more than 20,000 Russian tr...

Angus Robertson | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

Does the Foreign Secretary acknowledge that there are legitimate and acceptable ways in which to ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

The referendum in Scotland was, of course, agreed in this Parliament, and will take place in a le...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

I will give way a couple more times and then make progress, given the time restriction.

Charles Walker | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

May I say to my right hon. Friend that if Russia wants to be isolated, we should allow it to be i...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c651 (Link to this contribution)

I shall, of course, come to the further measures that we propose to take.

Frank Roy | 577 c652 (Link to this contribution)

Let me make it clear to the Foreign Secretary that not all Scots look inward all the time. May I ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c652 (Link to this contribution)

I shall come to the measures that we can take in a moment, but we have already suspended preparat...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c652 (Link to this contribution)

I think that, when we consider our actions, it will be important for us to be clear about these m...

John Baron | 577 c652 (Link to this contribution)

The Foreign Secretary is being very generous in giving way. He has been absolutely right to be ro...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c652 (Link to this contribution)

What my hon. Friend has said may take us on to wider debates, but I should point out that we are ...

Christopher Chope | 577 c653 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend has not yet mentioned the Council of Europe. Will this Government move to ex...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c653 (Link to this contribution)

The secretary-general of the Council of Europe and I will meet and be able to consider these thin...

Jim Shannon | 577 c653 (Link to this contribution)

I commend the Secretary of State on his strong stance on the recent situation in Ukraine. The EU ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c653 (Link to this contribution)

I will come back to that in a moment. It was important that we passed those measures, but it will...

Guy Opperman | 577 c653 (Link to this contribution)

In 1994 Russia and all other key countries signed the Budapest memorandum, which preserved Ukrain...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 cc653-5 (Link to this contribution)

That gives me the cue to run through, and make clear to the House, the spurious arguments Russia ...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

Given that the Foreign Secretary referred to the unilateral redrawing of boundaries, which we hav...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

Yes, there have been many discussions, including regular conference calls between EU Foreign Mini...

Brooks Newmark | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

Does my right hon. Friend agree that if President Putin is willing to use the protection of Russi...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

This is a source of profound anxiety to people in the Baltic states and other states of the forme...

Jonathan Djanogly | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not the case that Ukraine was one of the largest owners of nuclear weapons in the world and...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c655 (Link to this contribution)

That is a very powerful point. When the Budapest memorandum was signed and the commitment was mad...

Mark Pritchard | 577 c656 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Newmark) mentioned three states that are members of N...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c656 (Link to this contribution)

Of course we saw at the Vilnius summit the initialling of partnership agreements with both Moldov...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c656 (Link to this contribution)

I am conscious of the time, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman and then make more progress...

Chris Bryant | 577 c656 (Link to this contribution)

I wish to ask about the issue of impunity, because the Foreign Secretary is right to say that if ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c656 (Link to this contribution)

As the hon. Gentleman knows from previous debates, we already have the power, and we already use ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 cc656-7 (Link to this contribution)

I must make some progress now.

Our national interest depends on a rules-based international...

Malcolm Rifkind | 577 c657 (Link to this contribution)

The most important thing the Foreign Secretary has just said is that the further measures the Uni...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c657 (Link to this contribution)

Let me be precise about what I said. I said that the preparation is under way for a third tier of...

Mark Reckless | 577 c657 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not the case that many senior Russians want to come not to Brussels or to Frankfurt, but to...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c657 (Link to this contribution)

I would in no way rule that out. The measures we agreed yesterday apply in Britain as well as the...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c658 (Link to this contribution)

This is part of my answer to colleagues. We are also determined to ensure that we are taking all ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c658 (Link to this contribution)

I am going to give way just twice more so that other Members can speak.

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 577 c658 (Link to this contribution)

Is my right hon. Friend aware that this morning the Speaker of the Transnistrian Parliament has w...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 c658 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We succeeded yesterday in making sure that the EU speaks ...

Gerald Howarth | 577 c658 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome my right hon. Friend’s measures and congratulate him on a pretty robust stance by the B...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 cc658-9 (Link to this contribution)

I believe that there are further measures that can be taken that will make a difference and, inde...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 577 cc659-660 (Link to this contribution)

I will not give way again, because I want other hon. Members to be able to speak.

That rela...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c660 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the motion and this debate on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the British Government’...

Bernard Jenkin | 577 c660 (Link to this contribution)

What, in the right hon. Gentleman’s view, does Russia need to do to bring about a de-escalation o...

Douglas Alexander | 577 cc661-2 (Link to this contribution)

First and foremost, we must avoid a situation in which escalation continues as a result of the ar...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 577 c662 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend mentioned the importance of the EU speaking with one voice. Does he not thin...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c662 (Link to this contribution)

I have no criticism of the French, German and Polish Foreign Ministers. We saw from the dynamic o...

Brooks Newmark | 577 c662 (Link to this contribution)

Germany is particularly vulnerable to economic sanctions in relation to energy. Does the right ho...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c662 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman’s point is well taken. My research in recent days has shown me that, notwithst...

Paul Flynn | 577 c662 (Link to this contribution)

Would my right hon. Friend like to correct the wrong impression that the Foreign Secretary gave—p...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c663 (Link to this contribution)

I am certainly happy to echo my hon. Friend’s point about the actions of the Socialist Group in r...

Charles Walker | 577 c663 (Link to this contribution)

Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that Russia is not the power that it once was? It is riddled ...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c663 (Link to this contribution)

I find myself in agreement with the hon. Gentleman. There has been too much commentary in recent ...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 577 c663 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not another important factor that the Russian Federation is now much more dependent on the ...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c663 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman’s point is well taken. Russia is now significantly more integrated in the glob...

Douglas Alexander | 577 cc664-5 (Link to this contribution)

I want to make a little more progress.

Today, the European Union is Russia’s largest econom...

Edward Leigh | 577 c665 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the tone of this part of his speech. Despite everyt...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c665 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman’s point is a moot one given the circumstances in which the referendum took pla...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 577 c665 (Link to this contribution)

Is it not also the case that just last year, opinion polls showed that only 23% of people in Crim...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c665 (Link to this contribution)

As my hon. Friend knows, in circumstances such as this I am often given to say that opinion polls...

Robert Buckland | 577 c666 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. As I expected, he is making some measur...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c666 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman eloquently highlights the extent of cross-party agreement on this issue. This ...

Simon Danczuk | 577 c666 (Link to this contribution)

What has not been mentioned is that we have a large Ukrainian diaspora in the UK and indeed in Ro...

Douglas Alexander | 577 c666 (Link to this contribution)

I fully appreciate that this must be a deeply troubling time for all those with friends, relative...

Douglas Alexander | 577 cc666-7 (Link to this contribution)

Let me try to make a little more progress because I am conscious of the need to wind up, given th...

John Bercow | 577 c667 (Link to this contribution)

Order. In the light of the very large number of Members seeking to contribute to this debate, I h...

Malcolm Rifkind | 577 cc667-8 (Link to this contribution)

The crisis we are living through is a crisis not just for Ukraine but for every European country,...

Ben Bradshaw | 577 cc668-9 (Link to this contribution)

I commend the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) for his superb s...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 577 cc669-670 (Link to this contribution)

I have the advantage of agreeing with a great deal of what has been said, with one exception: the...

Mark Lazarowicz | 577 c670 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way and I agree with what he is ...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 577 c670 (Link to this contribution)

I admire the courage of those who seek to protest against a leadership so potentially brutal and ...

Mark Reckless | 577 c670 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. and learned Friend mentions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. As chairman of the all-part...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 577 cc670-1 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point.

I was turning to the question of how to respond. Sin...

Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park | 577 c671 (Link to this contribution)

The right hon. and learned Gentleman is making a very eloquent speech and has dwelt considerably ...

Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 577 c671 (Link to this contribution)

I do not think anyone can answer that question. My hon. Friend is right to ask the question, but ...

Mark Hendrick | 577 cc671-3 (Link to this contribution)

Russia’s military deployment into Ukrainian territory is extremely disturbing and without justifi...

Richard Ottaway | 577 c673 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Preston (Mark Hendrick), a valuable member of the ...

Gerald Howarth | 577 c673 (Link to this contribution)

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, but does he agree that the UK is perhaps not so badly pl...

Richard Ottaway | 577 c674 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and this will entail major strategic rethinking, not so much ...

Angela C Smith | 577 cc674-5 (Link to this contribution)

I have not traditionally participated in foreign policy debates, but I am pleased to be able to d...

Lord Wharton of Yarm | 577 cc675-7 (Link to this contribution)

We are dealing, as I suspect the Foreign Secretary is well aware, with somebody who is little mor...

Chris Bryant | 577 c677 (Link to this contribution)

I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) on his speech—he just persuaded...

Brooks Newmark | 577 c677 (Link to this contribution)

Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?

Chris Bryant | 577 c677 (Link to this contribution)

I do not know which point it is, but of course I will give way.

Brooks Newmark | 577 c677 (Link to this contribution)

He seems to have forgotten one important point. You can add targeted assassinations on British so...

John Bercow | 577 c677 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I do not have a list, but I think that the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) does.

Chris Bryant | 577 cc677-8 (Link to this contribution)

That was one of the other things I was leaving aside for a moment.

We know how Putin reacts...

Mark Hendrick | 577 c678 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend makes a very good point. In the last but one Foreign Office questions, I asked the...

Chris Bryant | 577 cc678-9 (Link to this contribution)

I completely agree with my hon. Friend. I think he also agrees with the Chairman of the Foreign A...

Gerald Howarth | 577 c679 (Link to this contribution)

The Foreign Secretary said that this is the most serious crisis of this century. I think it is pr...

Laura Sandys | 577 c679 (Link to this contribution)

Will my hon. Friend speculate on what Putin thinks about our response so far, and on whether he i...

Gerald Howarth | 577 cc679-680 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend raises an important point. I should think that Putin is laughing all the way to th...

Richard Ottaway | 577 c680 (Link to this contribution)

On the point about playing to the gallery in Russia, is my hon. Friend aware that Putin has gone ...

Gerald Howarth | 577 cc680-1 (Link to this contribution)

I am sure he has. Twenty years ago, I worked for the Sukhoi Design Bureau for a year, and Russian...

Lord Austin of Dudley | 577 cc681-2 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth) is completely right to call for much tougher a...

John Whittingdale | 577 cc682-4 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s speech and am encouraged that every speaker in this debate has ...

Helen Goodman | 577 c684 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great privilege to speak in this important debate about the very serious situation in Cri...

Bob Stewart | 577 c684 (Link to this contribution)

May I reinforce the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth)? M...

Helen Goodman | 577 cc684-5 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman, whose military expertise goes far beyond mine, makes a very useful point.

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Ben Wallace | 577 cc685-6 (Link to this contribution)

I do not need to repeat the profiling of President Putin that, like the problems, was completely ...

Bob Stewart | 577 c686 (Link to this contribution)

I think that we should reinforce the troops in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, because they are on...

Ben Wallace | 577 c686 (Link to this contribution)

I think that the real thing we must deal with here and now is Ukraine. We must make sure that Ukr...

John Bercow | 577 c687 (Link to this contribution)

Order. I am afraid that, with immediate effect, I have to reduce the time limit on Back-Bench spe...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 577 cc687-8 (Link to this contribution)

I welcome this timely debate. I think everyone acknowledges the seriousness of the situation in U...

Ian Jnr Paisley | 577 c688 (Link to this contribution)

Does my hon. Friend agree that if we are to put it back up to Russia, we must be able to defend w...

Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 577 c688 (Link to this contribution)

I want to conclude, because I realise the restriction on time, but I agree wholeheartedly with my...

Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 577 cc688-9 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to follow the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr McCrea). This has been a thoroughly ...

Jonathan Djanogly | 577 cc689-690 (Link to this contribution)

The solidarity and unity in this debate have been heartening.

Too many people in this count...

Laura Sandys | 577 cc690-1 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great privilege to speak after my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly), wh...

Penny Mordaunt | 577 cc691-2 (Link to this contribution)

I apologise to the House for not having been present for the whole debate—I was speaking in Westm...

Dominic Raab | 577 cc692-3 (Link to this contribution)

It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt).

Edward Leigh | 577 cc693-4 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton (Mr Raab) quoted John Quincy Adams who famously wa...

Angela C Smith | 577 c694 (Link to this contribution)

We must remember that Finland, too, was occupied by Russia for a considerable period. Does the ho...

Edward Leigh | 577 c694 (Link to this contribution)

No, of course I do not. Finland was also occupied by Sweden, but there is no time to debate that....

Julian Lewis | 577 c694 (Link to this contribution)

My hon. Friend said yesterday in Defence questions what a different position we would be in had w...

Edward Leigh | 577 cc694-5 (Link to this contribution)

I must finish shortly as others want to get in.

An attack on one NATO country is an attack ...

Neil Carmichael | 577 cc695-6 (Link to this contribution)

It is a great honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). His...

Angela Eagle | 577 cc696-8 (Link to this contribution)

We have had a short but timely debate, with a remarkable degree of agreement among Members on bot...

Lord Lansley | 577 c698 (Link to this contribution)

I am grateful to the shadow Leader of the House. I am also grateful to other Members, including t...

Lord Lansley | 577 cc699-700 (Link to this contribution)

I will not give way: Members must forgive me, as I have only three minutes to respond to the deba...

Dominic Raab | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

Will my right hon. Friend give way?

John Bercow | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

I think the Leader of the House has concluded his speech.

Question put and agreed to.

Chris Bryant | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Two years ago, on 12 March 2012, this House unanimously agreed a...

John Bercow | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

Far be it from me to say whether anybody has reneged or not, although I note in passing that to r...

John Bercow | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

Clearly the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) is most agitated also to raise a point of ...

Julian Lewis | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, you noticed my eccentric gesticulations an...

John Bercow | 577 c700 (Link to this contribution)

The hon. Gentleman has opened veritably a can of parliamentary worms. The issue he raises is impo...

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