Jack Straw Quotes
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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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We stand ready to hear what they have to say.
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Life would be very boring if friends always agreed.
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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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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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We left the door open for further diplomatic action with Iran. And I hope they take this opportunity.
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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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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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This is a truly historic day for Europe and for the whole of the international community.
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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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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 can't be sure there will be free and fair elections.
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So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.
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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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We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress.
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In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.
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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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No one is talking about invading Iran or taking military action against Iran.
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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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It is not on the agenda, I happen to think that it is inconceivable.
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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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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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We agreed that it is not possible for ministers to order the judiciary around.
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The EU and the European people have always seen Turkey as a European state, ... The heavy responsibility rests on all member states. ... I don't want to contemplate the possibility of a veto.