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 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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We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran,
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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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initially set off by whites and later, more seriously, involved Asians.
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I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.
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Each of these tests is demanding but eminently deliverable. We are working as hard as we possibly can to secure a second resolution.
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Everyone knows that the Arab peoples want prosperity, freedom and democracy every bit as much as anyone in Europe or America,
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That frankly was not in people's minds because there is a world market in oil,
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that have reportedly left thousands of the most vulnerable homeless and destitute and called on the government to abide by the rule of law and respect for human rights.
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that isolation and defiance of the international community does not work, however fanciful individual nations may think that it can work.
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That is the evidence. We look to the Iranians to desist from anything that they have been involved in the past, and also to use their very considerable influence with Hezbollah to ensure that this continued use of Hezbollah technology stops in Iraq,
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These terrorists are the enemies of the Iraqi people themselves.
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This is a very good result for the people of Iraq.
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Once they are back in the UK, the police will consider whether to arrest them under the Terrorism Act 2000 for questioning in connection with possible terrorist activity,