Ukraine

My Lords, I will have an opportunity to consider that specific question and will make sure that i...

Has the Minister noted President Putin’s contemptuous remarks about those sanctions this morning?...

My Lords, I did notice the specific comments to which the noble Lord refers. We fundamentally bel...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for setting out the history of this crisis and the Government’s re...

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend for setting out the Government’s action so far on the Ukr...

My Lords, the noble Baroness opening the debate rightly condemned Russian aggression in Crimea an...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for this debate and for her helpful setting out of ...

My Lords, I feel that in a dangerous situation of this kind the first duty is to escape from hype...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for giving way. I am listening carefully to the possible package ...

I think that those would be the unfolding ideals. It is in the interests of Russia—although I am ...

I fear I start from a rather more depressing position than many Members of this House. I agree wi...

Could my noble friend tell me where in the Budapest memorandum it refers to a guarantee?

I would have to look it up to find the exact place.

It is not there.

It is a guarantee that force would not be used to change the borders of Ukraine. In return, Ukrai...

My Lords, I start by apologising sincerely to the House for my late arrival to the debate this af...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow a speaker who has much long experience in Moscow. I well rem...

My Lords, I imagine the noble Lord, Lord Hylton, is not a relation of the sergeant who got back a...

My Lords, the State Duma in Moscow has just cancelled a delegation from our All-Party Parliamenta...

My Lords, I want to speak briefly on this occasion and to concentrate on Crimea. We need to study...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Goodhart makes his points persuasively and briefly, and I do not d...

My Lords, I begin with a tribute to the speech made by the Minister, which I found extremely info...

My Lords, I begin by recording my interest as a three-time election observer in Ukraine, as well ...

My Lords, my noble friend the Minister had to leave for a few minutes and just spoke to me. Even ...

I am most grateful to the noble Lord for giving way, but if you take the case of Serbia and Kosov...

My Lords, that is precisely the problem which I am identifying. If we try to widen it out to stat...

My Lords, I have no special knowledge of Ukraine but none the less, I felt compelled to speak in ...

My Lords, with your Lordships’ permission I will make a brief intervention at this point. I apolo...

My Lords, with the leave of the House I will speak in the gap.

I place on record my strong ...

I thank the Minister for her initial presentation and other noble Lords for their interesting con...

My Lords, I thank, in particular, the Opposition Front Bench for that very constructive and helpf...

Is the figure of 30,000 in excess of what was possible under the agreement that existed prior to ...

There is considerable evidence that a large number of Russian troops have arrived in Crimea in th...

I am sure that the Minister is not misrepresenting the Russian position. However, equally, many o...

There are all sorts of questions in the noble Lord's remarks and I could respond in a number of w...

The Minister referred to the fact that OSCE monitors have been denied access. I understand that t...

My Lords, before the Minister replies to that, will he say something about the OSCE in the sense ...

My Lords, I do not have any information on the question put by the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savo...