Jack Straw Quotes
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We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else.
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In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.
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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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If our rebate is an anomaly than it is based on another anomaly.
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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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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 proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil.
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It shows how from very, very dark circumstances -- and we've had to deal with terrorism year after year after year which has killed hundreds of people -- it is possible to see the light, provide the process to keep going and achieve results.
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those misgivings were surely put to rest by the lengthy statement we have just heard.
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In this country we have a very clear tradition by which people are fully entitled to engage in all kinds of peaceful, sometimes very noisy, protest,
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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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I hope, but I can't predict, that the negotiations at the beginning of next week will be fruitful.
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What people have got to remember is that Sept. 11 happened in 2001 and not in 2003. It was planned under the presidency of Bill Clinton.
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We do have, I think, a right to say that we've got to be able to deal Mr A, or Mr B, or Mr C. We can't deal with Mr Nobody. And that's the problem, OK?
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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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We must have a bargain which enables both sides to come out of it with their head held high.
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We should take stock of Iran and discuss how we might best pursue the nuclear file over the coming weeks.
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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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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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Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.
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It needs to be resolved by all facilities available to the international community, that is what we have been working on and continue to work on.
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We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.