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Speeches by McDougall.

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12 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

You are talking about how states do not want to give up sovereignty to have more effective enforcement. Is your feeling that we are moving in the wrong direction as an international community on that? We hear Putin talking about a multipolar world. We have a more, arguably, sovereigntist American President at the momen

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12 Dec 2024 Business of the House

Given the widespread revulsion at the violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in Georgia, will the Leader of the House make time for a debate on that matter? Imedi TV, the main propaganda arm of that brutal Government, operates and is directed from the UK through a company called Hunnewell Partners, so in such a debat

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12 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

Thank you for your answers so far. As has been touched upon throughout this, a lot of these issues are deeply contested as to whether a breach of IHL has taken place. Could you talk us through the mechanisms for monitoring whether breaches have taken place, and perhaps give us a commentary as to whether those mechanism

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12 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

Professor Sassoli, you started to touch on my next question. My last question was about the monitoring of international humanitarian law. I wonder whether you could talk me through the mechanisms for the enforcement of international humanitarian law and tell me what you think the strengths and weaknesses have been in t

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I do not think it is problematic. I am asking you to outline what it means in practice.

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I do not think it is problematic. I am asking you to outline what it means in practice.

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

Thank you, Ambassador. Can I also acknowledge and offer my condolences for your family’s suffering over the last 14 months? In your mission statement, you call for a just and equitable solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees. Could you expand on what that means in practice and whether there is room for negotiatio

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I am conscious that we are running short of time, so I will ask one question. We are talking about really big issues and quite long-term issues today, but there is obviously a humanitarian crisis at the moment in Gaza. Even the day after the ceasefire, that will be true. After the 2014 Gaza War, there were a lot of int

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I am conscious that we are running short of time, so I will ask one question. We are talking about really big issues and quite long-term issues today, but there is obviously a humanitarian crisis at the moment in Gaza. Even the day after the ceasefire, that will be true. After the 2014 Gaza War, there were a lot of int

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

Thank you, Ambassador. Can I also acknowledge and offer my condolences for your family’s suffering over the last 14 months? In your mission statement, you call for a just and equitable solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees. Could you expand on what that means in practice and whether there is room for negotiatio

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I know I would not find the grace that you have in the situation that you find yourself in, so thank you so much for being with us today. Adam mentioned the suggestion of setting up a special envoy around people who are arbitrarily detained or who are hostages. Much of the conversation about that that we have had in th

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I know I would not find the grace that you have in the situation that you find yourself in, so thank you so much for being with us today. Adam mentioned the suggestion of setting up a special envoy around people who are arbitrarily detained or who are hostages. Much of the conversation about that that we have had in th

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I do not think it is problematic. I am asking you to outline what it means in practice.

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

Thank you, Ambassador. Can I also acknowledge and offer my condolences for your family’s suffering over the last 14 months? In your mission statement, you call for a just and equitable solution to the issue of Palestinian refugees. Could you expand on what that means in practice and whether there is room for negotiatio

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I am conscious that we are running short of time, so I will ask one question. We are talking about really big issues and quite long-term issues today, but there is obviously a humanitarian crisis at the moment in Gaza. Even the day after the ceasefire, that will be true. After the 2014 Gaza War, there were a lot of int

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10 Dec 2024Foreign Affairs Committee — Oral Evidence (HC 488)

I know I would not find the grace that you have in the situation that you find yourself in, so thank you so much for being with us today. Adam mentioned the suggestion of setting up a special envoy around people who are arbitrarily detained or who are hostages. Much of the conversation about that that we have had in th

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5 Dec 2024Detained British Nationals Abroad

I congratulate the right hon. Member for Chingford and Woodford Green (Sir Iain Duncan Smith) on securing this debate, and on continuing to be a discomfort in the derrière for successive Governments on these issues. The right hon. Member for New Forest East (Sir Julian Lewis) talked about the brightest and the best goi

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2 Dec 2024North-West Syria

My mind also turned to the former Member for Batley and Spen, my friend Jo, and the cry she made in this Chamber to do something to help the people of Syria. Back then, we saw the widespread use of chemical weapons in the last moment when Assad’s regime was under pressure. What steps are the Government taking to monito

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29 Nov 2024Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill

I join the right hon. Member for The Wrekin (Mark Pritchard) in commending my hon. Friend for the way she has made sure that this binary debate has not been a polarising one. I started the debate where she is now, but I have moved to opposing the Bill by the stories I have heard of disabled people who have had “do not

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28 Nov 2024 Business of the House

Having sent birthday wishes to the Clerk of the House, will the Leader of the House extend her congratulations to the 1st Neilston boys brigade on its 70th birthday? It is a vibrant boys brigade at the heart of village life, giving great experiences to young people in my constituency. Will she make Government time avai

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