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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Lack of political progress in solving the linked problems of security, infrastructure and the political process are undermining the consent of the Iraqi people to the coalition presence and providing fertile ground for extremists and terrorists,
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I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.
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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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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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to ensure that both sides stick by the commitments which we have already entered into.
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What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.
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have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.
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We must have a bargain which enables both sides to come out of it with their head held high.
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We made some progress in respect of draft texts but obviously not sufficient progress,
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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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I think it is completely unacceptable for someone like Christopher Meyer to break trust in the way that he has done,