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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
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Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein.
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Nothing would please me more than if they were released in the next few days, but I don't want to raise the hopes of people detained.
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We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there.
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We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.
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As soon as I leave this briefing ... I am going to find the people I think are responsible and encourage them to deal with it and to offer them some career advice.
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I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations.
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Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.
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I think it is completely unacceptable for someone like Christopher Meyer to break trust in the way that he has done,
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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It is not on the agenda, I happen to think that it is inconceivable.
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Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction.
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We put forth proposals. They are still on the table, ... They have yet properly to be considered by the other side.
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This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.
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No negotiation is ever possible if you have to negotiate not only with the people in the room but also with some other committee in permanent session.
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I say this on behalf of the EU3 (Britain, France and Germany): We do not wish to see Iran referred to the Security Council.
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So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.
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those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.
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We will take stock of our next steps after the Israeli elections and intend to have a further meeting as soon as the Palestinian delegates are allowed to travel.
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Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
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I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting.
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It's a self-evident truth that if we're able to get a broad consensus with Russia and China, it strengthens the international community's hand with the Iranians on this dossier,
Jack Straw