Jack Straw Quotes
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Now more than 40 years since the prospect of membership of the European Union was first held out to Turkey.
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The day will put a particular emphasis on educating people of all ages about the lessons to be learnt from genocide.
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I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.
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The report indicated that people of a high level of this Syrian regime were implicated.
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What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.
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We are not proposing economic sanctions at the moment. Mugabe has already imposed the most terrible economic sanctions on his own people by collapsing the Zimbabwean economy.
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What is important ... is for Syria fully to cooperate over these questions that have been raised.
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I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad.
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What is important is that the region, the people of Serbia, now draw a line across Milosevic's past and his life, which was a malign influence on the people of Serbia and the whole region.
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I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.
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We need all to remember that the coalition ... decided to take military action to remove the Saddam regime because of our very clear assessment that Saddam Hussein and his regime were in clear material breach of U.N. Security Council resolution 1441 and many preceding that, and that therefore we did have to face the serious consequences which that resolution made clear would follow,
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Every enlargement that has taken place within the European Union has made both the existing and the new member states stronger and more prosperous, ... I'm in absolutely no doubt that the benefits will follow from this enlargement and bring a strong secular state which happens to have a Muslim majority into the European Union.
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We cannot get into a situation, and I believe the family understand this, where we start bargaining with terrorists and kidnappers, because if we were to, we would not make Iraq or anywhere else safer.
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Holocaust Memorial Day is intended as an inclusive commemoration of all the individuals and communities who suffered as a result of the Holocaust - not only Jews, but also Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, political prisoners and dozens of ethnic and other minorities.
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We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that.
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Saddam has a chance and he has to take it.
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It undermines the key relationship between civil servants and ministers, ... It has led to very great concern, I may say, among the whole of the diplomatic service.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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Anchor Turkey in the West and we gain a beacon of democracy and modernity - a country with a Muslim majority - which will be a shining example across the whole of its neighboring region,
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The demands they have made could not be met without great damage to jobs and industry, to essential services ... to pensioners and children.
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video.
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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The situation is grave, ... We have all worked hard to support the legitimate prime minister.
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There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.