More - Jack Straw Quotes

The dossier makes for harrowing reading, with accounts of torture, rape and other horrific human rights abuses

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 Human Rights

There was no consensus for that proposal, ... It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

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 Consensus

There was no consensus for that proposal. It frankly would make negotiations impossible and render your negotiators powerless.

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 Consensus

Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms.

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There is broad agreement on the issue of terrorism. Almost everybody round the room represents a country which has suffered from terrorism... Everybody understands the need to fight it. But as ever, there is some negotiation over texts,

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 Agreement

Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein,

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The British government's position is that prisoners -- regardless of their technical status -- should be treated humanely and in accordance with customary international law, ... We have always made that clear and the Americans have said they share this view.

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The Russian Federation have the same aim as the rest of the international community, ... Foreign Minister Lavrov is on record as saying that the Russian Federation does not wish the government of Iran to develop or acquire a nuclear weapons capability. That is the same approach as we have. What we're now working out is the appropriate tactics to achieve that.

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 Community

There is no justification whatever in any circumstances for this kind of terrorism and of course we will be working with our colleagues in the law enforcement agencies concerned to do everything we can to offer assistance to them,

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 Circumstances

It's another terrible terrorist atrocity, ... Their fight is ours, our fight is theirs.

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