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
question resolve war
There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue,
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It needs to be resolved by all facilities available to the international community, that is what we have been working on and continue to work on,
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I totally condemn these actions and I urge the Uzbek authorities to show restraint in dealing with the situation and look for a way to resolve it peacefully.
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This (stand-off) will not be resolved by military means, let's be clear about that,
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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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In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.
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Whether or not technically they have rights under the Geneva Conventions, they have rights in customary international law, and all of us who are either involved as their representatives as their governments or those holding them have obligations.
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We're going to listen carefully to what the president has to say and we'll take it from there,
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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there,
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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The people who will finally decide will not be the British Government or the Spanish Government, but the people of Gibraltar in a referendum, ... That was a solemn undertaking given in 1969 to the people of Gibraltar. We absolutely stand by it.
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We've agreed to set up a monitoring mission that is going to be launched on Thursday,
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We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,
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We are at a difficult time, but I believe that by the process of argument we should be able to get to a point where we can get a second resolution,