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Most recent annotations on things by Lord Howell of Guildford

  • Gary Payne: How exactly would we recognise this as a coup if not by taking the trouble in this modern age to view the wealth of material such as the blow by blow account in film available to all on the "you... (24 March 2012)
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  • Arnold Tarling: A diplomatic reply - but NOT a good one. It seems odd how we can interfere in Libya but not in Turkey or Sri Lanka and many other countries. (17 June 2011)
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  • Fuad Al-Tawil: I'm not in a position to put written questions to the minister and my MP seems unwilling to even answer whether "illegal settlements" in the West Bank are justified or not, so would someone... (18 May 2011)
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  • bollos demayer: "The Government's view is that when and if the Hamas leadership conforms to the requirements of the quartet, by both its behaviour and policy statements, that is the moment when we could go... (16 February 2011)
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  • bollos demayer: "Chinese warships are in the Mediterranean for the first time in several hundred years." er...chinese warships were in the mediterranean several hundred years ago??? must have missed that one!!! (13 February 2011)
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  • David Wright: Why is it now only at a "fairly early stage" when they have had decades to think about it? The time for deciding which powers belong here was before they were surrendered and then perhaps... (15 December 2010)
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  • DDDD DDDDDD: Lord Howell, your suggestion that Azerbaijan needs "protection" against Turkey and they are no longer allies is to say the least curious. They are indeed allies - that is why Armenia was nearly... (11 December 2009)
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  • Jane Birkby: Well said Sir! (12 May 2009)
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  • Hubert Taylor: Lord Howell it seems on the facts before the House of Lords alone, that the "...revolting practices..." as you describe (what I also call) the torture-practices of the USA, is not only... (24 April 2009)
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  • John Mason: My Lords, A military defeat is not going to solve the problem of the Tamils. The injustice has to be sorted out. The dream of a Tamil homeland is never going to be dead. As long as the Tamil... (13 March 2009)
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  • Maha Aldoujaily: The actual quote from the Newstatesman which you took out of context was:"..the first recorded incident of the latest stage of the war occurred on 4 November, when Israeli special forces entered... (18 January 2009)
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  • lloyd ncube: i would like to agree with the noble lord, lord Howell. the sanctions have proven to be very ineffective in regard to their objective. on the contrary most of us feel they actually exasabated... (25 January 2007)
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