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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Frankly I'm not holding my breath for any confessional statement from Saddam Hussein,
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If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,
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I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead,
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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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it does not obviate the responsibility for dealing with terrorism in their country.
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I think if you compare nation-building in other situations: after the war in Europe, building up stable nations from the collapse of the Soviet Union, look at Afghanistan; I think that is a reasonable prospect.
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We have spoken to the Italian administration at the highest level and they have agreed that these allegations will be fully investigated as part of the wider investigation into police malpractice by the Genoa Public Prosecutor,
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We can't be sure there will be free and fair elections,
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We believe the public will be better served if such warnings are used more sparingly.
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We've made a historic decision tonight on behalf of Croatia,
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We're working closely with the Saudi authorities to ensure the people who perpetrated these crimes are brought to justice.
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waiting for a police assessment of the video, which of course I have seen.
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We've discussed that, we are hoping very much that a visit can be arranged as soon as convenient but no date has yet been fixed,