Jack Straw Quotes
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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.
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Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
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Each is overwhelmingly Muslim and each, in their separate ways, is crucial to whether the world can be bound together, or fractured along deep political and theological divides.
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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,
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The fact that the Government is supporting pilgrims on the Hajj highlights the extent to which we in Britain live in a truly multi-cultural multi-religious society. No other Western country provides this kind of delegation.
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one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.
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The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent.
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Saddam has a chance and he has to take it.
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So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.
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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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The fact that some of these Arab states are willing to make this public is heartening, and it's a fair response to the Sharon government for the courage which the Sharon government has shown in moving out of Gaza and those four West Bank settlements.
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This is a truly historic day for Europe and for the whole of the international community.
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We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran.
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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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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving.
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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections.
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And I think we need therefore to judge the contents of what is in any event an interim report, against the reasons why we took military action back in March.
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If people are caught up for 36 hours in a soulless building in Brussels, tempers are going to fray... It is in many ways a sad day for Europe. But out of this sad day there is an opportunity to reconnect.
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a disgusting assault on the very principle of European democracy.
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It will spell out that we are approaching the end of the final opportunity that Saddam Hussein was given to completely disarm in substance as well as process.
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else.