Robin Cook
Robin Cook
Robert Finlayson Cookwas a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Livingston from 1983 until his death, and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 to 2001...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 May 1940
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I have to say that I will not accept the criticism that has been emanating from Belgrade from the very people who organize the mass ethnic cleansing of Kosovo, who have caused thousands of civilian deaths in Kosovo, and who have displaced from their homes hundreds of thousands of people in Kosovo, ... How dare they produce crocodile tears for people killed in the conflict for which they themselves are responsible.
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We cannot accept any peace that does not allow refugees to return and return safely,
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It is clear from weekend reports that the violence in Kosovo has continued. We do not accept that this is merely an internal matter.
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For years Libya has promised that it would accept a court without jury meeting in a third country. That way forward is now open to them,
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has undertaken to consider how it is going to accept international obligations in that regard.
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I do think those who are calling for ground troops have to be prepared to accept casualties that we are not able to accept,
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In his words, they lack the basic elements of life and are particularly short of food,
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In Kosovo Europe witnessed the greatest persecution of a whole people since the days of Hitler or Stalin. We acted because the age of mass deportation and ethnic cleansing belongs to Europe's past.
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The ball is now in their court, ... It is up to them to end the occupations.
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I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.
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I made it crystal clear there would be no further talks until the end of occupations, ... An end to the violence and the occupation of the farms is the essential next step.
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I had now expressed that view to both the chairman of the JIC and the prime minister and both had assented to it,
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It's very important that we all send Saddam Hussein a message that is resolute, is firm and is united, ... He must be firmly told that he is not going to be permitted to continue to build weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological and chemical weapons.
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It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.