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Debate on the Address: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Defence (23 Nov 2009)

Alistair Burt: ...of this House in due course, is presented by academics, commentators, diplomats and those from business. It pulled no punches about the in-tray of Congress and the President-from climate change to terrorism through nuclear proliferation and economic chaos. The world's expectations of the President have been high. The fact that the "re-set" button from the Bush era was pressed early ensured...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: ...of Sinai and Gaza. Slowly but surely, people managed to make something of the tragedies of the past. However, there have always been those who would undermine that progress; those who resorted to terror—to suicide bombings or indiscriminate terrorist acts—and those who used terror as a cover for their state's views. There were those who had a mindset that just could not accept...

Gaza (15 Jan 2009) has video

Alistair Burt: ...which that can be ensured. Hamas, its allies and the states that support it have to move, and have to be seen to be moving, inexorably towards an acceptance of the state of Israel and an absence of terror. The situation has to stop. If that acceptance were stated tonight, the Israeli troops would be out of Gaza. We have to find a way in which that can be done. It has started to become...

Oral Answers to Questions — Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Middle East (20 Feb 2007)

Alistair Burt: ...give any sense of international progress toward his release; and will she reconfirm that until there is acceptance of the Quartet's basic principles—recognition of Israel, denunciation of terrorism and the acceptance of previous Palestinian-Israeli agreements—there can be no recognition of the new Palestinian Government?

Police Restructuring (19 Dec 2005)

Alistair Burt: ...these matters, he would have been heard better. There are serious issues in relation to balancing local matters and larger-scale problems. I do not want the Minister of State to talk to me about terrorism. Bedfordshire police authority is still reeling from having £400,000 removed from its budget this year, which was previously paid to it to look after the policing at Luton airport...

African Development Strategies (4 Nov 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...patterns are no longer as rigid or certain as they were. The old context of security and ideological issues that defined European, western and world politics for so long is becoming redundant. Terrorism is taking some of the place of conventional warfare. Trade and development is arising as the longer term alternative to colonialism. Secondly, the new politics of the world will be based on...

African Development Strategies (4 Nov 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...of good reasons for Robert Mugabe's regime taking a little longer to accept the pluralist traditions that were common in other parts of the world. The consequence of the blind eye is the hunger, terrorism and destruction of human rights for many people in Zimbabwe and the cruel loss of the dignity that, ironically, Robert Mugabe had symbolised when he freed his people. We are a long way...

Fair Trade (25 Jun 2003)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...relationship between those who struggle to escape disease and poverty in one place and ourselves in another. One does not have to believe that there is an absolutely direct link between poverty and terrorism to recognise that those who seek to prey on the vulnerabilities of others find plenty of material in countries where the agony is greatest and the chance of escape most remote.

Christian Communities (Asia) (17 Jul 2002)

Mr Alistair Burt: .... Islamism is the aggressive propagation of Islamist ideology and the attempted vanquishing of other faiths, which are seen as incompatible with Islam. It is often associated with violence and terrorism. Examples of countries in Asia where Islamism is strong include Indonesia and Turkmenistan. Christians face severe persecution in parts of those countries. It is crucial to distinguish the...

International Terrorism (14 Sep 2001)

Mr Alistair Burt: ...vengeance. I take the view that there is a distinction between the two. It appears clear that, as my right hon. Friend the shadow Foreign Secretary said, if the world has not changed, the rules of terrorism certainly have, and the terrorists themselves have changed the rules. It is one thing for nations to react to the occasional terrorist outbreak, it is a different thing to bow before...

Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department: Terrorism (19 May 1988)

Mr Alistair Burt: As regards international terrorism, will my right hon. Friend assure the House that he and his international colleagues will bend their minds to the difficult question of press and television coverage of incidents like the recent hijacking? Does he agree that the considerable publicity given to hijackers' demands can sometimes contribute to the problems of terrorism? Will he consider the...