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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In his words, they lack the basic elements of life and are particularly short of food,
action bring home immediate president repressive
how to bring home to President Milosevic the need for an immediate end to repressive action.
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He put to bed any idea that there are going to be divisions between Europe and the United States over security,
calls community grateful supported swift
grateful to all those friends in the international community who have supported our calls for the men's swift release.
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If he (Hussein) really is willing this time to cooperate, that could be done in the fairly near future,
accept calling casualties ground prepared troops
I do think those who are calling for ground troops have to be prepared to accept casualties that we are not able to accept,
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It is very appropriate that I should be visiting Lebanon today because tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 425, ... We would like to see 425 implemented.
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It represents a further step forward in the Yugoslavia's return to Europe. We look forward to exchanging ambassadors as soon as possible.
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It is time to start talking and to get down to real serious business on the proposals by the Contact Group,
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The ball is now in their court, ... It is up to them to end the occupations.
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It's been imposed upon them by Milosevic who told them they would be guilty of treason to come here, ... (For) Milosevic to argue that it is treason to talk to the rest of Europe ... demonstrates how desperately isolationist he is and what a menace he is to the people of Serbia.
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I want to spell out to the people of Britain why our forces are bravely risking their lives destroying Saddam's threat to humanity. Our objective is to achieve by military action the disarmament Saddam will not allow the UN inspectors to carry out on the ground.
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It makes me very angry and also at the same time very sad that anybody should carry out such a violent attack with no possible gain from it and only suffering to the individual and his family,
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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.