Results 1-20 of 27 for iraq speaker:John Randall

Royal Assent: Christmas Adjournment (18 Dec 2008) has video

John Randall: ...RAF Uxbridge and RAF Northolt are currently serving overseas. I am thinking of 32 Squadron in particular, but there are others serving in the Falklands, Turkey, the middle east, Afghanistan and Iraq. I pay tribute to them and their families. I was contacted recently by a wonderful serving warrant officer, who told me the one thing that he was concerned about while serving was the appalling...

Points of Order: April Adjournment (3 Apr 2008) has video

John Randall: ...political one. It is a very serious matter and people from all parties have views on the subject. I find it particularly sad that on that matter, and incidentally on an inquiry into the war in Iraq, the Liberal Democrats do not seem to like anybody else to agree with them. They seem to think that it is their own particular thing, and they are rather sad if anybody dares to agree with them....

Western Balkans (26 Feb 2008)

John Randall: I am grateful to the hon. Lady for allowing me to intervene a second time. If I am not mistaken, her party was very keen on a United Nations mandate for the bombing of Iraq and the invasion of Iraq.

Western Balkans (26 Feb 2008)

John Randall: ...the situation, things should be done through the UN. I am reasonably consistent on that. I was not happy with the Government's position, or indeed that of my own Front Benchers, on going into Iraq without a UN resolution. I had to stand down from my Opposition post because I had a different opinion on the matter. I still think that if we in the west are to be the upholders of international...

Western Balkans (28 Mar 2007)

John Randall: ...the region, grenade attacks seem to be quite common. Admittedly, such incidents take place on a small level—we are not talking about things of the sort that are regrettably going on in Afghanistan and Iraq. However, such incidents indicate that there are large amounts of munitions in the hands of people who would perhaps be better off without them. That is why the Serbs feel so...

Adjournment (Easter) (30 Mar 2006)

John Randall: ...increase the number of such debates. I also wish to echo the sentiments expressed by the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) about a debate on foreign affairs. We could discuss not only Iraq and Afghanistan, but other matters. This week is the seventh anniversary of the bombing of Yugoslavia. Without repeating the arguments about whether that was right or wrong, that part of...

Western Balkans (22 Mar 2006)

John Randall: ...new questions for the Serbs about how they have been treated. In saying that, I am not making any judgments about the process. However, as I said at the time, we should look at what is happening in Iraq. The Iraqis are being allowed to deal with the case of Saddam Hussein. I still find it strange that Milosevic and others were taken off to The Hague, instead of Serbia being allowed to deal...

Oral Answers to Questions — Defence: Kosovo (17 Oct 2005)

John Randall: ...for that reply. Will he comment on reports that units are being deployed in Kosovo without some of their crucial experts, such as forward air controllers, because of operations in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)

John Randall: ...that what was done in Kosovo and Serbia—Yugoslavia, as it then was—was contrary to international law, but nobody kicked up too much of a fuss. In the light of the latter deployment in Iraq, I find it ironic that the Liberal Democrats, who have been keen on saying how they opposed war in Iraq—and they certainly did—were at the forefront of wanting to bomb the hell...

Foreign Affairs and Defence (18 May 2005)

John Randall: ...was set to allow action that was illegal under international law. He talks about humanitarian reasons for the action in Kosovo, but the Government could advance the same reasons for their action in Iraq, even though we were told that it was about weapons of mass destruction. It was most unfortunate that the action in Kosovo did not attract so much protest. I say that the Liberal Democrats...

Western Balkans (22 Mar 2005)

Mr John Randall: ...jeopardy. Successive Governments have made every effort to ensure that the country is a model of integration in the Balkans. In light of Macedonia's efforts—it has supported the coalition in Iraq and a member of its armed forces has even been killed over there—we sometimes need to give more support than mere words.

Western Balkans (22 Mar 2005)

Mr John Randall: ...were unwilling to help, I would have less sympathy for them. I remain open on that issue, which I know is very big in the country. The Serbs feel that they were not granted the same rights as the Iraqi people to try those who caused severe problems—problems is an understatement. The issue gets to the people there. They saw a further such example when there was no international...

International Criminal Tribunal (Former Yugoslavia) (23 Feb 2005)

Mr John Randall: I hear what the Minister is saying, but will he explain why a similar tribunal has not been set up for Iraq? Why is Saddam Hussein to be tried by his own people?

Western Balkans (11 Nov 2004)

Mr John Randall: ...from happy. I am pleased that many hon. Members recognise that the situation is not quite what we hear it is. Regrettably, because of other political considerations, not least the recent events in Iraq, I have a feeling that Kosovo is being sidelined or even made out to be an example of intervention at its very best, when as we have heard in the debate, what happened there is unresolved....

Written Answers — Defence: Postal Services (5 May 2004)

Mr John Randall: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to review the provision of free postage for troop parcels for forces serving in Iraq.

Referendums (Thresholds) Bill (27 Feb 2004)

Mr John Randall: ...UK Youth Parliament. Interestingly, those young people felt hard done by, because votes in the House on two issues about which most of them had strong feelings had gone the wrong way. One issue was Iraq, and the other top-up fees, and they said that they would like a referendum on both of them. However, as with all such issues, would they be prepared to vote? The measure should therefore...

Christmas Adjournment (18 Dec 2003)

Mr John Randall: ...to a pleasant, comfortable and warm Christmas, many people cannot do that, and I shall take the time I have left to talk about a forgotten area of Europe. In the wake of what has happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have often been told what a great success the campaign in Kosovo has been. However, I have a feeling that the truth about Kosovo is somewhat different, and that the plight of...

Dealing in Cultural Objects (Offences) Bill: Clause 2 — Meaning of "Tainted Cultural Object" (4 Jul 2003)

Mr John Randall: ...by a team of salvage operators who will bring it to the surface in due course. The protection of cultural objects, whether in our own country or elsewhere in the world, is of prime importance. In Iraq and, as I said earlier, in Kosovo, we have recently witnessed the incredible destruction of centuries-old buildings, and the resulting loss of objects that were inside them. But whether we...

Minorities (Former Yugoslavia) (17 Jun 2003)

Mr John Randall: ...to dwell on the rights and wrongs of that action—there is probably enough there for another day. Suffice it to say that in today's world as we look towards what evidence we had regarding Iraq we should be looking cleverly and intensely at the evidence that was presented at the time and at what subsequently proved to be accurate. There are many parallels. Interestingly, some of the...

Fire Services Bill (8 May 2003)

Mr John Randall: ...and, we think, could be sorted out over a cup of tea. However, they end in almost open warfare. That seems to be the situation with the fire dispute. The fact that there was a build-up to action in Iraq during the course of the dispute made the situation much more difficult, and the firefighters, who had been supported by the public in many ways, started to be demonised. I have no...