Results 1-20 of 20 for terrorism speaker:Alex Salmond

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (17 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...budget. I repeat: Labour wanted to cut the winter maintenance budget. We know that it also wanted to cut the budget of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and cut support for anti-terrorism measures. Given the list of cuts that the Labour Party took to the Finance Committee, is it surprising that it got the support of no other party in Parliament?

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Police (Funding) (15 Nov 2007)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: This year the Scottish Government is providing in excess of £12 million in 100 per cent grant funding to Scottish police forces specifically for counter- terrorism purposes. We are also reviewing with the police what additional resources will be needed to improve the ability to fight terrorism in the future.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Police (Funding) (15 Nov 2007)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: The police and other enforcement agencies co-operate daily to ensure that Scotland is as safe as the rest of the United Kingdom from the threat of terrorism. The issue is reserved, but Sandra White can be sure that we will work closely with the UK Government in this area and that we will pursue the need for additional resources as necessary.

Points of Order (18 Jan 2006)

Alex Salmond: ...you to reflect on, as well as the Prime Minister? Will you come back to the House with an opinion on that before the Prime Minister decides to intercept our communications, whether for reasons of terrorism or because of rebellious Labour Back Benchers?

Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland: Devolution (15 Nov 2005)

Alex Salmond: What advice was sought or given by the Advocate-General on the Government's terrorism legislation? We know that the Home Secretary, in an arrogant and dismissive attitude to Scots law, did not seek the advice of the Lord Advocate and we know that, in a craven way, neither the Lord Advocate nor the First Minister offered advice. The Advocate-General has a role in those matters, so will the...

Written Answers — Defence: Counter-terrorism (4 Apr 2005)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what representations he has received from the Scottish Executive regarding the formulation of the European Council's position on counter-terrorism.

Iraq (20 Jul 2004)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...election this coming November. If "President Gore" had acceded to the White House and pursued what we know to be his policy, war in Iraq would have been viewed as a distraction from the war against terrorism. The policy of this Government would then have been fundamentally different. I do not believe in my country right or wrong, but the Government believe in another country right or...

Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation (23 Mar 2004)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...ambitious forecasts are subject to great uncertainty. We hear daily of the incompetence and deception of the US Administration—including from the revelations of Mr. Richard Clarke, the former terrorism tsar, which explain the extraordinary diversion of international effort to the Iraq campaign over the past year. A little more than a year ago, a united world community focused on a...

Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice) (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Alex Salmond: .... I was pleased to note that I started my contribution by saying what I still believe to be the case—that the fundamental issue at stake was not Saddam Hussein, Iraq, oil or international terrorism, but the development of a new world order. In particular, it was the development of a doctrine of pre-emption by the dominant—indeed, the only—superpower in the world, and how...

Iraq (Attorney-General's Advice) (9 Mar 2004)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...its position. We have moved from the situation on 12 September 2001 when 100 countries came behind the United States of America in its moment of extremity to back an international war against terrorism, to a position in which the international community and the United Nations have been fractured to such an extent that the Prime Minister believes that there must be a new world order to...

Iraq (18 Mar 2003)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...as a martyr when he is dead than he has ever been while alive. The images that will be shown are those of the innocents who will undoubtedly die in a conflict that will be a breeding ground for terrorism. Will the nation-building work? The record of the United States on nation-building has not been impressive. Let me say something about one of the other countries that is being reviled at...

Bali (15 Oct 2002)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...to fight a war on two fronts if any preoccupation with a military campaign in Iraq were to detract, disrupt, deflect or in any way undermine the solidarity of the international coalition against terrorism.

Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction (24 Sep 2002)

Mr Alex Salmond: .... The Prime Minister's much delayed dossier describes evidence of wish, intent and enormous cruelty, although not of immediate capability in nuclear weapons or, indeed, of links with international terrorism, even though at least some people in the United States said initially that that was the pretext for action. However, the real debate in my view turns on what does or what does not...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs: International Coalition against Terrorism (16 Apr 2002)

Mr Alex Salmond: I should say to the Minister that most Members of the House can recognise state terrorism when they see it or read about it. So that we may estimate the strength, breadth and endurance of the international coalition against terrorism, will the Minister tell us which of its members—with the exception of the United States and Britain—would support military action against Iraq...

Written Answers — Prime Minister: "Defeating Terrorism: Campaign Objectives" (22 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Prime Minister if the information released by Her Majesty's Government to the British media, during an official briefing in Oman on 10 October 2001, entitled "Defeating Terrorism: Campaign Objectives" is identical to the document placed in the Library on 16 October, entitled "Defeating International Terrorism: Campaign Objectives".

Written Answers — Prime Minister: "Defeating Terrorism: Campaign Objectives" (19 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Prime Minister when he plans to publish the document "Defeating Terrorism: Campaign Objectives"; and if he will make a statement.

Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...experience of military conflict have left the House and that such voices are not heard to the same extent. As I said earlier, the Government did not publish the document, "Defeating International Terrorism: Campaign Objectives", when Mr. Alastair Campbell briefed the press about it last Thursday; it was placed in the Library today. That was not an oversight. I asked 10 Downing street for a...

Coalition against International Terrorism (16 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: I take it that the document that the Foreign Secretary is placing in the Library is entitled "Defeating International Terrorism: Campaign Objectives." The Prime Minister's press secretary briefed the press about it last Thursday afternoon. Given the huge interest of hon. Members and the wider public, especially in the extent of the military aspect of the campaign, is there any reason for the...

Coalition against International Terrorism (8 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...few days unless the alliance proceeds extremely carefully. During last Thursday's debate, my hon. Friend the Member for Ceredigion (Mr. Thomas) said that there is no case in recorded history of "terrorism . . . being defeated by military action alone."—[ Official Report, 4 October 2001; Vol. 372, c. 729.] Those are wise words, and I hope that the Government are taking full account...

International Terrorism and Attacks in the USA (14 Sep 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...effort to dismantle such organisations is justifiable, necessary and welcome. Does the Prime Minister also agree, however, that there must be an attempt to dismantle the hatred which breeds terrorism? He mentioned a renewed effort for peace in the middle east. Can he give the House any comments on the time scale, structure, hope and expectation for that international effort; and when it...