Chris Patten
Chris Patten
Christopher Francis Patten, Baron Patten of Barnes CH PCis chancellor of the University of Oxford and a former governor of Hong Kong and the BBC Trust...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 May 1944
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He would like Britain to take a leading role in the affairs of the EU, and to lay to rest our ambivalence about membership of the union,
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It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution...responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
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We do think the appalling economic circumstances in the West Bank and Gaza, that the economic blockade by Israel, that the non-payment of revenues by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, that these things make the security situation worse,
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Will Hong Kong people really be able to decide for themselves, as promised, how to run their domestic affairs, or will the decisions which matter be dictated by others?
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The contract is we'll pray that Hong Kong will fly to the heavens, and you'll occasionally say a prayer for us,
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We have to come away from Nice able to look the candidates for membership in the eye
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We want to know that if we are investing money in Macedonia, it is being spent to ensure Macedonia's stability and prosperity,
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We are profoundly disappointed that Zimbabwe's parliament has passed this law, which represents a fundamental attack on media freedom,
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We must dig deep in our pockets to make sure Pakistan isn't destabilized by the humanitarian crisis that may be about to engulf the country,
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What we are still not told is why it is necessary to restrict Hong Kong's civil liberties,
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But there is no cause for thinking sad thoughts, that there is dishonor in these endings. Nothing has melted away. There have been no defeats,
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Certainly in Europe, I don't think that would be acceptable to our electorates. I think our electorates would much prefer us to say, well, we'll do what we can to ensure that at least on our part the protocol is ratified by the time of the conference on sustainable development in 2002,
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Britain has made clear repeatedly to Chinese leaders that it would be wrong and damaging to scrap this council and replace it,
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Every head of government has national interests they want to battle for and there must be trade-offs for an agreement to be reached,