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HANSARDUkraineMy Lords, one of my first professional involvements with Ukraine was in 1994 when, as Britain’s Permanent Representative to the UN, I was instructed, along with my Russian and US…25 Feb 2022HANSARDUkraine: NATO MembershipMy Lords, would the Minister not agree that this demonstrates what some of us have said all along: that the question of Ukraine’s NATO status has always been a smokescreen and a…24 Feb 2022HANSARDUkraine: OSCE Special Monitoring MissionMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the OSCE monitors provide the best and possibly the only totally objective means of telling the rest of the world if the Russians add to…23 Feb 2022HANSARDEurope: Foreign Policy and Defence Co-operationMy Lords, does the Minister recognise—I pay tribute to what the Government are doing on this—that the key aspect of this crisis, in our hands and those of our European and NATO…21 Feb 2022HANSARDAutocrats, Kleptocrats and PopulistsMy Lords, the last century, the one in which many Members of your Lordships’ House spent most of their lives, opened with a world dominated by empires and autocracies, and with…03 Feb 2022HANSARDCPTPP (International Agreements Committee Report)The noble Lord is very kind to have replied to my point, but he happens to have replied to the wrong one. I never suggested we should consult the EU; I suggested we should brief…01 Feb 2022HANSARDCPTPP (International Agreements Committee Report)My Lords, the case for the UK joining the CPTPP seems an entirely convincing one. That of course is one of the findings of the report that we are debating today, which was so…01 Feb 2022HANSARDCapita: Turing Scheme ContractMy Lords, does the noble Baroness not recognise that this issue of a lack of reciprocity and places for overseas—not just European —students in British universities is a serious…27 Jan 2022HANSARDVaccine Patents WaiverMy Lords, does the Minister not agree that if the Government’s objective—an admirable one—is that vaccines should be equitably available around the world, it has not been a total…24 Jan 2022HANSARDAfghanistan (International Relations and Defence Committee Report)My Lords, few individuals and no organisations emerge unscathed from last August’s debacle in Afghanistan, and I regret to say that our House is among those institutions, having…24 Jan 2022HANSARDEU-UK Partnership CouncilMy Lords, does the Minister agree that the experience of the first year of operation of this council has shown that the very passive and rather negative approach to it—doing the…18 Jan 2022HANSARDExchange of Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information AgreementMy Lords, I should at the outset make it clear that I welcome the agreement by the US and the UK to make naval nuclear propulsion information available to Australia, one of our…17 Jan 2022HANSARDMikheil SaakashviliMy Lords, while I recognise that it is not for this House or any Member of it to judge former President Saakashvili’s innocence or guilt, is the point being made to the Georgian…13 Jan 2022HANSARDNuclear WeaponsMy Lords, will the Minister accept how welcome it was that the Government —perhaps a little belatedly—agreed to the P5 statement that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never…12 Jan 2022HANSARDRussiaDoes the Minister not agree that the object we are all pursuing is effective deterrence? Does he not think that the deterrent capacity of the western alliance would be greater if…10 Jan 2022HANSARDRefugees: Mass DisplacementMy Lords, it is conventional to congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Alton, on securing this topical and timely debate, and I do so wholeheartedly—all the more so because our debate…06 Jan 2022HANSARDNationality and Borders BillMy Lords, there can be no doubting the sensitivity in both political and social terms of the policy areas covered in the Bill to which we are giving a Second Reading today.…05 Jan 2022HANSARDBosnia-HerzegovinaMy Lords, I am speaking in the gap and will therefore not detain your Lordships long. Having been much involved in the Bosnian tragedy as Britain’s Permanent Representative to the…16 Dec 2021HANSARDEU–UK Partnership CouncilMy Lords, would the Minister not agree that a slightly more proactive approach to holding meetings with the TCA might be better than simply standing at the Dispatch Box and saying…16 Dec 2021HANSARDInternational Day of DemocracyMy Lords, will the Minister tell the House whether we were consulted before last week’s summit of democracies about the division between the democratic sheep and the undemocratic…15 Dec 2021