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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This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
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This is a negotiation. Our aim was to listen.
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This is a crucial meeting for the future of the European Union.
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Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.
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Offering to be transparent now is simply saying you are going to be compliant and really accepting you have not been compliant (with IAEA demands) in the past,
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a disgusting assault on the very principle of European democracy.
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theological-political divide, which could open up even further down the boundary between so-called Christian heritage states and those of Islamic heritage.
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As far as 'Syria next on the list', we made clear that it is not,
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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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Now more than 40 years since the prospect of membership of the European Union was first held out to Turkey,
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Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.
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Coming just days before the presidential elections, it looks like yet another attempt by the Mugabe regime to obstruct the conduct of the election and the ability of the people of Zimbabwe to choose, freely and fairly, who should lead them.
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And that's just the easy business, ... We've then in the West Bank area got the issue of the extension of settlements.
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appear to have been targeted at heavily populated areas to produce maximum carnage.