Jack Straw
Jack Straw
John Whitaker Strawis an English politician who served as the Member of Parliamentfor Blackburn from 1979 to 2015. Straw served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary from 1997 to 2001 and Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006 under Blair. From 2007 to 2010 he served as Lord Chancellor and the Secretary of State for Justice throughout Brown's...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 August 1946
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The foreign secretary urged Iran even at this late stage to take the opportunity to come into compliance,
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Delay would give Saddam the clearest possible signal that his strategy is succeeding, ... It would tell him that the international community lacks the will to disarm him.
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Those residents who are there should consider leaving unless their presence there is essential, ... British citizens who remain should exercise extreme caution, especially in public places.
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There is no question of us going to war in Iran. Why? Because it's not going to resolve the issue,
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We owe it to his memory and the memory of so many other people who have been killed in the Lebanon, lost all their livelihoods, to ensure there is a democratic Lebanon and one which is fully sovereign within its borders,
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We'll recognize and respect whoever emerges as a leader through this system. Our concern, however, is that they (the Iraqis) have to make swift progress to secure a leader.
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We must have a bargain which enables both sides to come out of it with their head held high.
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the possibility of war is real and very disturbing.
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We stand ready to hear what they have to say.
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We have just made history, ... an EU based on values, not just history. Turkey has always been a European country.
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We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran,
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We're going to listen carefully ... and make an assessment from there,
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There are some important questions for Syria to answer and to deal with,
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very concerned indeed about the human rights situation.