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
iraq
are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.
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Saddam's weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security, ... We must not shrink from our commitment.
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Saddam Hussein is not entitled to any presumption of innocence.
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Saddam has a chance and he has to take it,
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That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
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Your circumstance is entirely hypothetical, and I'm quite clear it won't arise.
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This is an event of such horrifying, unimaginable proportions that I believe it is one where shock grows with time rather than diminishes.
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This is a truly historic day for Europe and for the whole of the international community.
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This is a terrible outrage committed by people with no humanity, ... I know that the police are devoting huge efforts to find the perpetrators.
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This is... the funeral of the Cold War. It marks a profound, historical change,
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The situation is very serious, there has been a clear abuse of human rights, a lack of democracy and a lack of openness,
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The situation is grave, ... We have all worked hard to support the legitimate prime minister.
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The three foreign ministers and Javier Solana just had an hour and 20 minute meeting with the new foreign minister of Iran, ... Everybody knows the efforts that the EU-3 has put in (to defuse the crisis) ... We look forward to the meeting later on.
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putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.