Jack Straw
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Strawis an English politician who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 August 1946
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Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms.
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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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He has pledged every assistance from the Iraqi government,
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He must not believe, because he would be making the mistake of his life, that he can mess the international community about yet again.
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There is great concern in the European Union about the need for Syria to take much more action to control terrorism in its territory and from its territory,
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Because it was quite dark in that corner I was being pushed towards shaking hands with somebody just as a matter of courtesy and then it transpired it was President Mugabe.
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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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So far as travel advice to Kenya is concerned, it already warns of possible dangers and we will be reviewing that straight away,
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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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I hope, but I can't predict, that the negotiations at the beginning of next week will be fruitful,
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I have today decided that I will not order the extradition of Senator Pinochet to Spain. I have also decided not to ... proceed in respect of the extradition requests from Switzerland, Belgium and France.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting, ... I would personally like take this opportunity to offer my own condolences to Mr. Menezes' family and friends, and condolences to the Brazilian government and people.
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I profoundly regret the circumstances in which we had to hold this meeting,