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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The process of Turkish accession has turned into a lightning rod for other discontent,
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.
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We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
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We are all agreed that it is extremely important that as quickly as possible there is a broad-based multi-ethnic civil administration in Afghanistan.
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What we're doing is talking and that is always better than not talking,
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What we need is action. The problem for the European Union is that we can only go at the pace of the slowest. Therefore, there is a special responsibility on the countries which have failed so far implementing measures to get moving,
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There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with,
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We heard overnight that there was one confirmed death of a British citizen.
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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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Our position in terms of paying ransoms has been very clear and consistent. The United Kingdom does not pay ransoms.
It has been distressing for the Wises and their family,
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It is not on the agenda, I happen to think that it is inconceivable.