Jack Straw Quotes
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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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The English are potentially very aggressive, very violent.
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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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waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.
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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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The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.
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The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness.
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I cannot say whether in the middle of December we will or will not reach a deal, but it certainly will not be for want of trying.
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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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a disgusting assault on the very principle of European democracy.
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Because we want international consensus...we will be allowing a good period of up to two weeks, maybe a little more, before we ask for a decision.
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The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
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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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There will have to be some way to ensure accountability for what has already been found here.
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Iran has the opportunity now to address the clear concerns of the IAEA, and the lack of confidence in Iran's nuclear intentions.
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In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.
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The truth is, as (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice has made clear, military action in respect of the Iranian dossier is not on anybody's agenda. I believe it is inconceivable.
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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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one of the appropriate moments to make this clear.
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Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.
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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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those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.
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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.