Peter Hain
Peter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain, Baron Hain, PCis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor Neath between 1991 and 2015, and served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was the Leader of the House of Commons from 2003 to 2005 and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland from 2005 to 2007 under Blair, and as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Secretary of State for Wales from 2007 to 2008 under...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth16 February 1950
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Provided the enabling environment is established and maintained, this program will be achievable within two years, though if the conditions are right to move more quickly in implementing elements of the plan, the government will do so,
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Freedom of the press is a basic principle of international human rights, ... I urge the Liberian government to drop all charges and release the journalists immediately.
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So it is absolutely essential now that the government gives the lead to re-establish the rule of law,
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The problem is that once the government and he (Mugabe) encouraged the land invasions and did not do anything about the violence, but appeared to condone it, the situation escalated,
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The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.
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We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.
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These are two independent bodies who will call it as it is. They will tell us what is for real,
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And until we got the Good Friday Agreement, which opened up a whole new world for Northern Ireland, and indeed elsewhere, that has changed everything.
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Even though I was a (Chelsea) fan, a fanatic, you actually wanted to see him do it -- you clapped him as he destroyed your team.
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confirms all my worst fears ... The Sun has done the House a favor by exposing the amateurish and old fashioned culture which is a threat to the very cockpit of our democracy.
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It's been fascinating watching all those pictures of me with a lot more hair Jeremy, and looking very young. And we've all got things we've said, twenty, thirty years ago, indeed the whole world has changed since then.
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There have been lots of promises by the IRA in the past, including (weapons) decommissioning events, but on a much smaller and more limited scale than this one ... This is different.
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We're all working together then to look forward beyond an IRA statement, if it is the credible one we're hoping for and expecting.
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The actions of the UVF in respect of the ongoing feud, taken together with the very serious attacks against the security forces over the course of 10 and 11 September amounted to a breakdown in their cease-fire,