Jack Straw Quotes
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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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to discuss wording and take on board constructive suggestions as to how the process set out in the draft resolution could be improved, and that is exactly what we are doing.
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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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If our rebate is an anomaly than it is based on another anomaly.
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We don't have to make a decision today about this. I think the appropriate place for that to be announced is to the British parliament and there'll be a statement from me in exactly a week's time when parliament reassembles.
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exploited every instrument of the state to distort the electoral process.
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But members of the public are bound to be concerned and their concerns can be allayed if they are shown that every effort is being made by the European Union and by member states effectively to coordinate action.
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I think that his history of mendacity is so intense and so long-lasting that he wouldn't understand the truth if he fell over it.
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Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background.
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I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations.
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We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead.
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you cannot leave a report like this on the table.
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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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I'm very pleased to announce that agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession into the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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We stand ready to hear what they have to say.
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putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.
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Saddam's removal is necessary to eradicate the threat from his weapons of mass destruction.
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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.
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The foreign secretary urged Iran even at this late stage to take the opportunity to come into compliance.
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This is a terrible outrage committed by people with no humanity, ... I know that the police are devoting huge efforts to find the perpetrators.
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We will help whenever we can to move the process forward and deliver security and justice for Palestinians and Israelis.
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And that's just the easy business, ... We've then in the West Bank area got the issue of the extension of settlements.
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Although Yitzhak Rabin was prevented from seeing his efforts bear fruit, he set in motion a process which, despite setbacks, continues today.