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Proceeding contribution from Lord Howell of Guildford (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Monday, 17 November 2014. It occurred during Ministerial statement on G20 Summit.

My Lords, I seem to agree with my noble friend that if anything the words used to describe the Islamic caliphate were not strong enough. Its habits are to decapitate its prisoners, murder aid workers, violate women and produce the kind of medieval butchery that we thought had been expunged from the planet. The rhetoric aside, can she say whether at the G20 there was any readiness to recognise that more than speeches are needed, that action from all the partners in the G20 throughout the world is needed, and that to try to contain the caliphate and its murderous habits is not just a western task? It is a task for all civilised nations, whether we are talking about China, Australia, the United States or even Russia, whose values are equally threatened. Can she say whether something more definite was put forward in those terms at the G20?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
757 c277 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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