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Tunisia and European Council

The noble Baroness has a lot of expert knowledge of this area. I will write to her in response to her question about the report by Sir John Jenkins.

Clearly immediate action needs to be taken, and it is being taken. There is military intervention in Syria, albeit that America is taking the lead there with our Arab partners. We are providing some security and intelligence effort. We are contributing very directly in Iraq and are the second largest contributor to air strikes. Ultimately, the answer to stability in that part of the world lies in good governance. We must support these countries to get to a point where they have Governments in place who can properly represent all

the peoples of their individual nations so that together they can combat this terrible, perverted ideology. That will take some time.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
762 cc1840-1 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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