Results 1-14 of 14 for iraq speaker:Mark Hendrick

Debate on the Address: Foreign Affairs and Defence (10 Dec 2008) has video

Mark Hendrick: I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on having been consulted by President Obama when he drafted his policies with regard to Iraq. Is it not the case that the Liberal Democrats would still print on a postcard and send to al-Qaeda the date of British troops' withdrawal from Iraq?

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

Mark Hendrick: ...thank the right hon. Gentleman for giving way. I take on board his point that this issue is about the past as well as the future. Does he regret supporting the Government's decision to go to war in Iraq?

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Mark Hendrick: ...the most important energy producing region in the world, but one of the most politically unstable. Tensions over Iran's nuclear programme have intensified concerns about the stability of supply. In Iraq, tens of billions of dollars are required to bring the oil industry's output back up to its 1978 peak of 3.5 million barrels per day. That capital has not been invested because of the...

Orders of the Day: Foreign Affairs and Defence (12 Nov 2007)

Mark Hendrick: .... Since 2001, health services have been expanded, reaching 82 per cent. of the Afghan population, and there are now 856 standard health facilities. A great deal of progress has also been made on Iraq. In the past four years we have helped to train and equip over 13,000 Iraqi army troops. Three of the four provinces in which British troops are engaged have been handed over, and there has...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Mark Hendrick: ...a surge in migration to Europe. In future, multiple, concurrent, small-to-medium-scale peace enforcement or peacekeeping operations will become the norm, but the ability to undertake large-scale intervention operations such as that in Iraq in 2003 will remain important. In March 2003, the MOD's joint doctrine and concept centre published its assessment of security threats to the United...

Oral Answers to Questions — Communities and Local Government: Defence Policy (16 Oct 2007) has video

Mark Hendrick: I think there is a decline, to some extent. I speak from experience, because in my constituency I am visited by people from Iraq and Afghanistan who complain that they may have to return to those countries because of the improved security situation, having found a much more secure situation in the United Kingdom. So the position is improving, although that is not easily visible from our...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Mark Hendrick: ...the first hon. Member, despite the hours of debate, to describe this as a war. Al-Qaeda is waging a war on secularism, tolerance, and racial and religious harmony. It is waging a war on Muslims in Iraq as well as on the people of all faiths and races from places as far apart as New York and Bali and as near as Madrid and London. The world in which we live is changing by the day. Affordable...

Orders of the Day — Terrorism Bill (26 Oct 2005)

Mark Hendrick: ...how they attain their freedom, I, and for that matter many Governments, have little power over that. However, where there are interventions and military actions such as in Afghanistan and Iraq—conflicts where genocide has been averted—and conflicts that involve the UN, we can hold a view that celebrates and justifies armed struggle against the oppressors, and would justifiably...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (17 Oct 2005)

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what assessment he has made of the likely impact of the vote on the constitution on the security situation in Iraq.

EU Constitution (8 Jun 2005)

Mark Hendrick: ...of the EU's response to an international situation involving, for instance, humanitarian aid or peacekeeping efforts. When it comes to hard diplomacy, as we have seen in cases such as the war in Iraq, that will not suffice. The European Union countries will continue to adopt their own policies, and, of course, retain sovereignty over the use of their armed forces. I see a more united...

Written Answers — Defence: Iraq (7 Feb 2005)

Mr Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence if he will make a statement on the security situation in Iraq.

Iraq (4 Jun 2003)

Mr Mark Hendrick: It is a question not of eight weeks, but of about 12 years in which the United Nations has been trying to get the weapons out of Iraq. I put it to the hon. Gentleman that he does his constituents a disservice and insults their intelligence, as the Prime Minister made that clear today.

European Union (Accessions) Bill (21 May 2003)

Mr Mark Hendrick: ...: "The voice of Europe will only be heard in world affairs if there is a single voice." Britain has consistently advocated a strong, successful and effective common foreign and security policy. The Iraq crisis has shown that foreign policies are ultimately determined by national interests. Britain needs to be able to act alone, on its own initiative, as it did in Sierra Leone—and,...

Orders of the Day — UN Security Council Resolution 1441 (25 Nov 2002)

Mr Mark Hendrick: I support UN Security Council resolution 1441. It is important to understand why it is necessary to undertake the inspections and why there might be a need for military action. We know that Iraq started two major wars, one against Iran in the 1980s and the other against Kuwait in 1991. The Iraqi Government face international sanctions and the threat of war. They have chemical and biological...