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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There must be proper access to legal representation and it must be an open and fair trial which we can observe and monitor.
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The tests do nothing to enhance Pakistan's security environment. They further escalate tension and heighten concerns about an arms race in South Asia.... In carrying out these further tests, Pakistan has acted in flagrant disregard of international opinion.... The international community is united in its insistence that Pakistan should refrain from further tests.
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The Russian government throughout has sought to be as helpful as it can within its power, but that power is very limited in Chechnya,
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A European operation will only occur where NATO, as a whole, has decided not to act,
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And I hope he will be willing to work with us and with the international community to take forward that peace process,
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I was pleased that the prime minister assured me that he would make inquiries today about access ... to the remaining two British citizens he has not yet seen,
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My other objective today was to secure fair elections, free of intimidation,
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Over time, more and more of them will be coerced to stay static to save fuel, ... If they come out of hiding, they will be hit.
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If he (Hussein) really is willing this time to cooperate, that could be done in the fairly near future,
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I warmly welcome the news that the meeting in Rome has agreed (to) the terms of a statute to establish the International Criminal Court,
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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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are getting very close to agreement across a number of fronts.
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Neither of us is predicting there will be an agreement by Tuesday, but what we have seen over the past 24 hours is substantial movement,
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Belgrade had better take note -- the outside world is not going to let this one go, ... The EU is going to make sure ethnic confrontation is not going to be allowed to continue in any part of Europe.