Chris Patten
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes CH PCis chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1944
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the whole international community needs to stand together in the face of new threats to our shared values.
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Politicians in Colombo recognize that they do have to work together in order to provide a common position for dealing with the (Tamil Tigers),
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I very much hope the success that's already been achieved will help Wells get over the finishing line and raise the money still required.
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I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States
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Anna was Sweden and we hope to our very marrow that Sweden will go on being Anna.
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Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it,
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Every head of government has national interests they want to battle for and there must be trade-offs for an agreement to be reached,
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We do think the appalling economic circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza, that the economic blockade by Israel, that the non-payment of revenues by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, that these things make the security situation worse,
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Will Hong Kong people really be able to decide for themselves, as promised, how to run their domestic affairs, or will the decisions which matter be dictated by others?
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Frankly, there wouldn't have been much point in me coming unless I was prepared to go and see the head of the Tamil Tigers and make clear in no uncertain terms what the international community expects of him and his colleagues in coming weeks and months,
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Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,
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But there is no cause for thinking sad thoughts, that there is dishonor in these endings. Nothing has melted away. There have been no defeats,
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Nobody, repeat nobody, that I've met from the major political parties in Colombo have raised any question or doubt about my visit at all.
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Most worrying for me in China is the stoking up of nationalist sentiment as an alternative to, I think, moral fervor that used to accompany Communism. I hope that the Chinese authorities will be careful about that.