Results 1-18 of 18 for iraq speaker:Malcolm Bruce

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Reconstructing Afghanistan (10 Jul 2008)

Malcolm Bruce: ...a great variety of things happening in different parts of it. I say at the outset, perhaps for the benefit of opinion and the media in this country, that Afghanistan should not be confused with Iraq: the reasons why we are there, what are doing there, and the purposes and circumstances by which we came to be there are fundamentally different.

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Reconstructing Afghanistan (10 Jul 2008)

Malcolm Bruce: ...often the two engagements are conflated in the British press as though they were similar in context, and they simply are not. That important point needs to be made. Whatever people's views are on Iraq and Afghanistan, the situations in those countries should be treated as two completely separate engagements, rather than two sides of the same one. There is evidence of strong support among...

[Mr. Martyn Jones in the Chair] — Reconstructing Afghanistan (10 Jul 2008)

Malcolm Bruce: I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for making that pertinent, timely and extraordinarily important point, which reinforces again the distinction between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq is not a poor country, whereas Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. We should be engaged in helping to reduce that poverty. The truth is that if Iraq were a stable non-threatening...

[John Bercow in the Chair] — Occupied Palestinian Territories (5 Jul 2007)

Malcolm Bruce: ...corruption in the past. Many Palestinians, most of whom had voted for Fatah, told the Committee that they felt they were being punished for a democratic vote. One woman told us that the UK, "Had invaded Iraq to impose democracy but refused to recognise the Palestinian democracy resulting from a free and fair election." When I put that to Tony Blair on his appearance before the Liaison...

[Janet Anderson in the Chair] — Strategic Export Controls (22 Feb 2007)

Malcolm Bruce: ...of dual use is particularly pertinent to me, as I represent a constituency heavily engaged in oil and gas exploration, development and production. We will all surely be mindful of the fact that the arms to Iraq scandal centred on supposed oilfield equipment—actually components for making a supergun—being exported to Iraq. In case of misunderstanding, let me be clear: I do not...

Point of Order: Iraq and the wider Middle East (24 Jan 2007)

Malcolm Bruce: ...view, I think it was somewhat demeaning of her to suggest that the speech from my right hon. and learned Friend the Member for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell) about what we should do now in Iraq was anything other than an honest statement of a policy assessment by a party which, incidentally, when it opposed the war unanimously, did so against a background of popular opinion in...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (22 Nov 2006)

Malcolm Bruce: ...to explain the two-state solution on the current division of territory. It may be that any credibility that the United Kingdom had as a potential peace broker evaporated on the day when we invaded Iraq. For there to be peace, Israel needs security and Palestine needs a viable, economically productive state. There can never be absolute security, and confidence building and a reduction in...

Written Answers — Solicitor-General: Serious Fraud Office (22 Nov 2005)

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Solicitor-General if the Serious Fraud Office will investigate the allegations concerning British companies contained in the Volcker report into the UN Oil-for-Food operation in Iraq; and if he will make a statement.

Oil and Gas Supplies (12 Oct 2005)

Malcolm Bruce: ...provider of oil and gas; Russia is rebuilding a one-party state that controls all its assets. If it became unfriendly, that could be a problem. One could say the same of Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Iraq. My hon. Friend is absolutely right: we surely need to develop a wider range of alternatives that would leave us less vulnerable to geopolitics.

Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry: Iraq (27 Jan 2005)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: Does the Secretary of State acknowledge that, while the Export Credits Guarantee Department has announced $100 million of additional short-term cover for Iraq contracts, £1 billion, with interest, of historic debts have had to be written off in Iraq and £3.1 billion of outstanding ECGD debts are deemed irrecoverable? Can she tell us how much British taxpayers may have to put at risk...

Oral Answers to Questions — Minister for Women: Iraq (8 Jul 2004)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: Although it is welcome that women are involved in the new Government, the role of women in the new Iraq needs to be at least as good as it was under the previous regime, which ironically, in its general treatment of women, was better than many other states in the middle east. With regard to the question from the hon. Member for Keighley (Mrs. Cryer), is not the problem the fact that we have...

Business of the House (10 Jun 2004)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: In the light of the changeover, does the Leader of the House think that the time for a debate on Iraq rapidly approaches? We must understand both the future deployment of British troops and the engagement of British agencies. The Leader of the House's reply on postal votes suggests that a debate is required. He was anxious to debate the matter himself, so he should accept that a debate is...

Russia (Human Rights) (10 Mar 2004)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...and trepidation with which Governments act to maintain relations with Russia. However, the events of the past year have created a slight counter-current because Russia's position on the actions in Iraq was significant. At the least, our Government, and especially the American Government, were anxious to avoid the application of a Russian veto—they wanted neutrality. I shall not press...

Written Answers — Trade and Industry: Export Credits Guarantee Department (Iraq) (2 Feb 2004)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if she will list the contracts for which Iraq incurred its outstanding debt to the Export Credit Guarantee Department, including the names of the projects and the UK companies concerned; and if she will make a statement on the Government's intention to recover this debt.

Written Answers — International Development: Iraq (11 Jun 2003)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Minister of State, Department for International Development what steps the Department is taking to ensure that (a) medical and (b) food aid is reaching those most urgently in need in Iraq.

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...Leader of the Opposition about the comparison between the situation we are now in and 1938 that seems to me utterly inappropriate. In the confrontation between the west, and other democracies, and Iraq, the similarity with 1938 has already happened. It happened when Iraq invaded Kuwait, when the House and my party supported military action to confront Saddam Hussein and secure Kuwait's...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...in the case of Afghanistan, because the Taliban Administration was clearly harbouring the perpetrators of 11 September, and we backed that action. There is not the same connection in the case of Iraq. In those circumstances, we are entitled to argue that the case for military action has not been made. Even if this war is quick, effective and decisive, and even if, as the right hon....

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr Malcolm Bruce: ...were specifically there to block agreements and were successful in doing so. Not only that, but the media daily broadcast speeches from the American Administration making the case for a war against Iraq at a time when 109 nations and their Heads of Government were gathered to try to create a platform for peaceful development in the future. The juxtaposition was ironic in the extreme. The...