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Oral Answers to Questions — Children, Schools and Families: Iraq (15 Jun 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: As one who supported the Iraq war, I did so on human rights grounds. I saw no secret material and had no private briefing, but I had a 30-year involvement with the Iraqi opposition. I personally would want assurances from the inquiry as to why, prior to the war, this country failed to indict leading members of the Iraqi regime when we had the legal evidence to enable us to do so.

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...somewhat constrained during his period on the Front Bench. I look forward to hearing many more speeches from him. I want to pay tribute not only to our military, who have done a tremendous job in Iraq, and to the American military, but to all the officials who have had to go Iraq as part of their job. Many have volunteered to go back to Iraq for a second or third time. They have been very...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: May I finish the sentence? We need to look at the best ways of helping the people of Iraq rather than continually harking back to the past. I, too, would like to go back to the past at various times, and to as far back as 1988. We remember well what happened at that time, and when we have an inquiry, perhaps those circumstances might also be considered, including the bad policy decisions that...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...withdrawn, there will be an inquiry. I do not think that there is an issue, so I do not know why the hon. Gentleman is making one. My involvement with, and interest in, the human rights of the Iraqi people goes back three decades. I led the non-governmental organisation the Campaign Against Repression and for Democratic Rights in Iraq—CARDRI—in the 1980s and I chaired the...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: I was not talking specifically about the Kurds, but about the persecution of minorities in other parts of Iraq as well. The Iraqi Government are well aware of that and have been attempting, through rapid response, to protect those minorities as quickly as possible when they are made aware of situations. I want to mention the subject of detention. Since I started going to Iraq in 2003, it is...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: Oh dear. No. I know that many Members take an interest in the situation of women in Iraq. In many parts of the country the situation of women is improving, but I know that things have been very bad for women there over the past five years. Women now have the opportunity to take part in the political life of the country. We ought to applaud the fact that 25 per cent. of members of the Council...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...of the House agreed to take part in video conferencing, but that has not happened yet—on the first occasion there was a sandstorm; on the second occasion there was an important vote in the Iraqi Parliament; on the third occasion there was a security issue; and on the last occasion the Iraqi Parliament suddenly went on holiday. We have not yet managed to organise that video...

Bills Presented: Iraq: Future Strategic Relationship (14 Jan 2009) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...will participate in a future one. It is important for those women to feel solidarity with women in this Parliament. They value the British particularly—I cannot emphasise enough how much the Iraqi people value British involvement. Our continued involvement is certainly important in rebuilding the country. We should remember that for the first time in many generations, Iraqis enjoy...

Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Iraq (18 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: I am very proud that this country helped to free Iraq from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein. Anyone who has followed the history of Iraq will know that we did the right thing at that particular time. I am glad that the Prime Minister has reaffirmed that the withdrawal of our military efforts does not mean an end to our commitment to the people of Iraq, and that they will continue to benefit from...

European Affairs (9 Dec 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...not allowed to use the Kurdish language in many official situations, so a lot of resentment was building up. That fuelled support for the PKK and harmed relations with neighbouring countries, such as Iraq. When I met the deputy chair of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, he said that he understood that to defeat the PKK, the Government had to address the grievances of the Kurds...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: I think that I have been quite consistent during the time that I have spoken about Iraq in this Chamber. I argued for one thing—for the removal of a regime that persecuted its own people and was responsible for 5,000 deaths in Halabja, for the deaths of tens of thousands of Kurds throughout Kurdistan, and for the deaths of tens of thousands of Shi'a in the south. It was for humanitarian...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...do to remove that regime. However, it is quite right to ask what went wrong. Unlike many Foreign Office officials, I have not yet put my memoirs on paper. However, I have been closely involved with Iraq for more than 30 years. I have my own criticisms of how things progressed after the war— [ Interruption. ] I know that my hon. Friend the Member for Islington, North (Jeremy Corbyn)...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: My hon. Friend was one of those few people who, in 1988, came with me to the Foreign Office to complain about the actions of the Conservative party in its dealings with Iraq. In particular, when the events at Halabja occurred, the then Foreign Office Minister said that there was no evidence. We said at that time, "We insist that you get the evidence, because it is there." My hon. Friend has...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: Because Iraq had ignored 17 UN Security Resolutions— [Interruption.] I wonder whether the hon. Gentleman has ever sat in the UN and listened, as I did for several years running, to the report of the UN rapporteur on human rights in Iraq, who detailed all the things that I have mentioned today. The UN Security Council sat there and did nothing. If the UN is to mean something, surely...

Opposition Day — [8th Allotted Day]: Iraq Inquiry (25 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ..., but some of us, including many of my hon. Friends who opposed the war, presented the arguments for regime change for many years. We consistently said that something should be done about the Iraqi regime. I believed that the regime should have been indicted under international law. It was possible in the case of Milosevic, so why not in the case of Saddam Hussein, Tariq Aziz and many...

Business of the House: International Women's Day (6 Mar 2008) has video

Ann Clwyd: ...for North-East Fife (Sir Menzies Campbell). People should be judged not on their age but on their ability to do a job. I am not making the case for McCain, although on some issues, particularly Iraq, I agree with him, and not with the Democrat candidates. Hillary is 61, and people say that she may be too old. The point is made in The Times today that "there is the matter of maturity and...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (3 Mar 2008)

Ann Clwyd: My right hon. Friend will know that, last week, we were pleased to welcome six Iraqi trade unionists to the House of Commons, and they all talked about improved security. There were two women among them—one from Basra, one from Baghdad—and they were concerned about the continuing intimidation of and threats against women. Next time my right hon. Friend meets the leadership in...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Iraq (3 Dec 2007) has video

Ann Clwyd: Last week, seven members of the all-party group on Iraq returned from a successful visit to Baghdad. We found that refugees are returning from Syria and Jordan to Iraq because the security situation has improved. May I say that we talked to four American generals and the British general as well as the leading figures in Iraq, and that the mood is one of cautious optimism?

Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister: Iraq (27 Jun 2007) has video

Ann Clwyd: Will my right hon. Friend welcome the findings at the weekend of the Iraqi higher tribunal, which found Ali Hassan al-Majid—"Chemical Ali"—guilty of genocide and the killing of 180,000 Kurds? May I assure the Prime Minister that many, many people in Iraq salute his courage and leadership, without which that regime would never have been brought to justice?

Business of the House (21 Jun 2007)

Ann Clwyd: ...strongly about his contribution to international development and the fact that he continued to be interested right up to his recent illness. While one might debate the merits or demerits of the Iraq war—I still hold to the same view—there is a humanitarian crisis among the displaced people of Iraq, both inside and outside the country, and I would ask for an urgent debate on...