Ukraine
Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons
We now come to the main business: a general debate on Ukraine, for which there are three hours, p...
I beg to move,
That this House has considered Ukraine.
The crisis in Ukraine is the m...
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I am grateful to the Foreign Secretary for giving way so early in his speech. Does he agree that ...
Yes. This was a vote in circumstances in which Crimea was occupied by more than 20,000 Russian tr...
Does the Foreign Secretary acknowledge that there are legitimate and acceptable ways in which to ...
The referendum in Scotland was, of course, agreed in this Parliament, and will take place in a le...
I will give way a couple more times and then make progress, given the time restriction.
May I say to my right hon. Friend that if Russia wants to be isolated, we should allow it to be i...
I shall, of course, come to the further measures that we propose to take.
Let me make it clear to the Foreign Secretary that not all Scots look inward all the time. May I ...
I shall come to the measures that we can take in a moment, but we have already suspended preparat...
I think that, when we consider our actions, it will be important for us to be clear about these m...
The Foreign Secretary is being very generous in giving way. He has been absolutely right to be ro...
What my hon. Friend has said may take us on to wider debates, but I should point out that we are ...
My right hon. Friend has not yet mentioned the Council of Europe. Will this Government move to ex...
The secretary-general of the Council of Europe and I will meet and be able to consider these thin...
I commend the Secretary of State on his strong stance on the recent situation in Ukraine. The EU ...
I will come back to that in a moment. It was important that we passed those measures, but it will...
In 1994 Russia and all other key countries signed the Budapest memorandum, which preserved Ukrain...
That gives me the cue to run through, and make clear to the House, the spurious arguments Russia ...
Given that the Foreign Secretary referred to the unilateral redrawing of boundaries, which we hav...
Yes, there have been many discussions, including regular conference calls between EU Foreign Mini...
Does my right hon. Friend agree that if President Putin is willing to use the protection of Russi...
This is a source of profound anxiety to people in the Baltic states and other states of the forme...
Is it not the case that Ukraine was one of the largest owners of nuclear weapons in the world and...
That is a very powerful point. When the Budapest memorandum was signed and the commitment was mad...
My hon. Friend the Member for Braintree (Mr Newmark) mentioned three states that are members of N...
Of course we saw at the Vilnius summit the initialling of partnership agreements with both Moldov...
I am conscious of the time, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman and then make more progress...
I wish to ask about the issue of impunity, because the Foreign Secretary is right to say that if ...
As the hon. Gentleman knows from previous debates, we already have the power, and we already use ...
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
I must make some progress now.
Our national interest depends on a rules-based international...
The most important thing the Foreign Secretary has just said is that the further measures the Uni...
Let me be precise about what I said. I said that the preparation is under way for a third tier of...
Is it not the case that many senior Russians want to come not to Brussels or to Frankfurt, but to...
I would in no way rule that out. The measures we agreed yesterday apply in Britain as well as the...
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
This is part of my answer to colleagues. We are also determined to ensure that we are taking all ...
I am going to give way just twice more so that other Members can speak.
Is my right hon. Friend aware that this morning the Speaker of the Transnistrian Parliament has w...
My hon. Friend makes a very good point. We succeeded yesterday in making sure that the EU speaks ...
I welcome my right hon. Friend’s measures and congratulate him on a pretty robust stance by the B...
I believe that there are further measures that can be taken that will make a difference and, inde...
Will the Secretary of State give way?
I will not give way again, because I want other hon. Members to be able to speak.
That rela...
I welcome the motion and this debate on the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and the British Government’...
What, in the right hon. Gentleman’s view, does Russia need to do to bring about a de-escalation o...
First and foremost, we must avoid a situation in which escalation continues as a result of the ar...
My right hon. Friend mentioned the importance of the EU speaking with one voice. Does he not thin...
I have no criticism of the French, German and Polish Foreign Ministers. We saw from the dynamic o...
Germany is particularly vulnerable to economic sanctions in relation to energy. Does the right ho...
The hon. Gentleman’s point is well taken. My research in recent days has shown me that, notwithst...
Would my right hon. Friend like to correct the wrong impression that the Foreign Secretary gave—p...
I am certainly happy to echo my hon. Friend’s point about the actions of the Socialist Group in r...
Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that Russia is not the power that it once was? It is riddled ...
I find myself in agreement with the hon. Gentleman. There has been too much commentary in recent ...
Is it not another important factor that the Russian Federation is now much more dependent on the ...
The hon. Gentleman’s point is well taken. Russia is now significantly more integrated in the glob...
I want to make a little more progress.
Today, the European Union is Russia’s largest econom...
I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the tone of this part of his speech. Despite everyt...
The hon. Gentleman’s point is a moot one given the circumstances in which the referendum took pla...
Is it not also the case that just last year, opinion polls showed that only 23% of people in Crim...
As my hon. Friend knows, in circumstances such as this I am often given to say that opinion polls...
I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. As I expected, he is making some measur...
The hon. Gentleman eloquently highlights the extent of cross-party agreement on this issue. This ...
What has not been mentioned is that we have a large Ukrainian diaspora in the UK and indeed in Ro...
I fully appreciate that this must be a deeply troubling time for all those with friends, relative...
Let me try to make a little more progress because I am conscious of the need to wind up, given th...
Order. In the light of the very large number of Members seeking to contribute to this debate, I h...
The crisis we are living through is a crisis not just for Ukraine but for every European country,...
I commend the right hon. and learned Member for Kensington (Sir Malcolm Rifkind) for his superb s...
I have the advantage of agreeing with a great deal of what has been said, with one exception: the...
I am grateful to the right hon. and learned Gentleman for giving way and I agree with what he is ...
I admire the courage of those who seek to protest against a leadership so potentially brutal and ...
My right hon. and learned Friend mentions Abkhazia and South Ossetia. As chairman of the all-part...
My hon. Friend makes a powerful point.
I was turning to the question of how to respond. Sin...
The right hon. and learned Gentleman is making a very eloquent speech and has dwelt considerably ...
I do not think anyone can answer that question. My hon. Friend is right to ask the question, but ...
Russia’s military deployment into Ukrainian territory is extremely disturbing and without justifi...
It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Preston (Mark Hendrick), a valuable member of the ...
My right hon. Friend makes a good point, but does he agree that the UK is perhaps not so badly pl...
My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and this will entail major strategic rethinking, not so much ...
I have not traditionally participated in foreign policy debates, but I am pleased to be able to d...
We are dealing, as I suspect the Foreign Secretary is well aware, with somebody who is little mor...
I congratulate the hon. Member for Stockton South (James Wharton) on his speech—he just persuaded...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way on that point?
I do not know which point it is, but of course I will give way.
He seems to have forgotten one important point. You can add targeted assassinations on British so...
Order. I do not have a list, but I think that the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) does.
That was one of the other things I was leaving aside for a moment.
We know how Putin reacts...
My hon. Friend makes a very good point. In the last but one Foreign Office questions, I asked the...
I completely agree with my hon. Friend. I think he also agrees with the Chairman of the Foreign A...
The Foreign Secretary said that this is the most serious crisis of this century. I think it is pr...
Will my hon. Friend speculate on what Putin thinks about our response so far, and on whether he i...
My hon. Friend raises an important point. I should think that Putin is laughing all the way to th...
On the point about playing to the gallery in Russia, is my hon. Friend aware that Putin has gone ...
I am sure he has. Twenty years ago, I worked for the Sukhoi Design Bureau for a year, and Russian...
The hon. Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth) is completely right to call for much tougher a...
I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s speech and am encouraged that every speaker in this debate has ...
It is a great privilege to speak in this important debate about the very serious situation in Cri...
May I reinforce the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Aldershot (Sir Gerald Howarth)? M...
The hon. Gentleman, whose military expertise goes far beyond mine, makes a very useful point.
...I do not need to repeat the profiling of President Putin that, like the problems, was completely ...
I think that we should reinforce the troops in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, because they are on...
I think that the real thing we must deal with here and now is Ukraine. We must make sure that Ukr...
Order. I am afraid that, with immediate effect, I have to reduce the time limit on Back-Bench spe...
I welcome this timely debate. I think everyone acknowledges the seriousness of the situation in U...
Does my hon. Friend agree that if we are to put it back up to Russia, we must be able to defend w...
I want to conclude, because I realise the restriction on time, but I agree wholeheartedly with my...
I am grateful to follow the hon. Member for South Antrim (Dr McCrea). This has been a thoroughly ...
The solidarity and unity in this debate have been heartening.
Too many people in this count...
It is a great privilege to speak after my hon. Friend the Member for Huntingdon (Mr Djanogly), wh...
I apologise to the House for not having been present for the whole debate—I was speaking in Westm...
It is a pleasure to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Portsmouth North (Penny Mordaunt).
My hon. Friend the Member for Esher and Walton (Mr Raab) quoted John Quincy Adams who famously wa...
We must remember that Finland, too, was occupied by Russia for a considerable period. Does the ho...
No, of course I do not. Finland was also occupied by Sweden, but there is no time to debate that....
My hon. Friend said yesterday in Defence questions what a different position we would be in had w...
Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
I must finish shortly as others want to get in.
An attack on one NATO country is an attack ...
It is a great honour to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Gainsborough (Sir Edward Leigh). His...
We have had a short but timely debate, with a remarkable degree of agreement among Members on bot...
I am grateful to the shadow Leader of the House. I am also grateful to other Members, including t...
I will not give way: Members must forgive me, as I have only three minutes to respond to the deba...
Will my right hon. Friend give way?
I think the Leader of the House has concluded his speech.
Question put and agreed to.
On a point of order, Mr Speaker. Two years ago, on 12 March 2012, this House unanimously agreed a...
Far be it from me to say whether anybody has reneged or not, although I note in passing that to r...
Clearly the hon. Member for New Forest East (Dr Lewis) is most agitated also to raise a point of ...
Further to that point of order, Mr Speaker. Yesterday, you noticed my eccentric gesticulations an...
The hon. Gentleman has opened veritably a can of parliamentary worms. The issue he raises is impo...