Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:50 pm on 29 October 2003.
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean
Minister of State (Middle East), Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Minister of State (Middle East), Deputy Leader of the House of Lords
2:50,
29 October 2003
My Lords, we are getting some help from South Africa but, as I am sure the noble Baroness will know, there are a number of our friends in the Commonwealth whose position on this is more nuanced than ours. When we have hoped, for example, to gain support in the United Nations for the possibility of a Security Council resolution, as I indicated yesterday, there has not always been the enthusiasm that we would have wished to see.