Jack Straw Quotes
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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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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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We don't rule out the possibility of military action and neither in our view should anybody else.
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What we are going to do is to listen carefully to what the president says Saturday afternoon and take it from there.
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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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Saddam has a chance and he has to take it.
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This is a truly historic day for Europe and for the whole of the international community.
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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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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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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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If our rebate is an anomaly than it is based on another anomaly.
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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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The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
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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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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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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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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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Let no one be in any doubt that this is a profoundly evil trade whose perpetrators have no regard for human life, ... We have been determined to crack down on this trade.
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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 heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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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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This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.
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There has to be some certainty about who the leader is before the summer break.
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I hope, but I can't predict, that the negotiations at the beginning of next week will be fruitful.