Jack Straw Quotes
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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Everyone knows that the Arab peoples want prosperity, freedom and democracy every bit as much as anyone in Europe or America.
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you cannot leave a report like this on the table.
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This is a terrible outrage committed by people with no humanity, ... I know that the police are devoting huge efforts to find the perpetrators.
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This (stand-off) will not be resolved by military means, let's be clear about that.
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We will help whenever we can to move the process forward and deliver security and justice for Palestinians and Israelis.
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Rigid pan-European working limits on hours will not deliver health and safety for our work force, particularly where the rules are unevenly applied.
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This is of fundamental importance in ensuring that Gaza does not in the future stay as a prison, it opens up economic and social relations.
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Obviously, it is a matter of grave concern that a British citizen has been killed,
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There is a general sense of guarded optimism. There have been too many false dawns over the last 60 years. There have been more tears than smiles, but I sense there is a commitment from Abbas and Sharon, a new determination to make a reality of the goal of two states living side by side.
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very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.
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not a fight against Islam, it's a fight against terror.
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It is a further illustration of the evil that we are dealing with...
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These are the final rites of the funeral of the Cold War, with Russia as a friend and ally and no longer as an enemy.
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We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
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I am optimistic about Iraq, I think in five to 10 years we will see it becoming stable.
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(Annan) asked that arrangements should be made for a briefing of the security council and that will be taking place later today.
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Certainly, there's a possibility of an amendment, that's something we're looking at.
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There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.
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We made it clear there will have to be significant changes in levels of overall spending of the EU and in the structure of funding compared to what was on the table in June if there is going to be a deal in December.
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They are not, and almost everybody accepts this, entitled to engage in seeking to disrupt the way our democracy operates by violence or threats of violence.
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We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday.
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This is a very good result for the people of Iraq.
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We should take stock on Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks, ... This might also be an opportunity to discuss what Iran's new government and its breaking of the Paris Agreement means for EU-Iran relations over the coming months.