Results 101–120 of 2083 for speaker:Lord Malloch-Brown

Written Answers — House of Lords: Sierra Leone: Elections ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The International Military Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) in Sierra Leone will not be deploying additional personnel for the elections in Sierra Leone, nor has it received any requests to do so. IMATT will not be present at polling stations and neither will the Republic of Sierra Leone armed forces. The Sierra Leone police (SLP) will have primacy. The UK has been providing support to the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Sierra Leone: Elections ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL), which co-ordinates all UN activities in Sierra Leone, is co-ordinating and funding a total of 57 volunteers. These are distributed as follows: 19 technical experts (16 funded by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) basket fund, two by the Department for International Development and one by UNIOSIL); and 38 UN volunteers (22 funded by the UNDP...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Sudan: Darfur ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The Panel of Experts' reports of 30 January 2006, 19 April 2006 and 2 October 2006 provide details of violations of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1591, including continued military flights. In addition, the African Union (AU) Darfur Ceasefire Commission is responsible for monitoring all provisions related to the suspension of aggressive acts as stipulated in the Darfur peace...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Sudan: Darfur ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: Our immediate focus is to support the African Union-UN meeting in Arusha on 3- 5 August. My right honourable friend the Foreign Secretary made a joint statement with the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Mr Bernard Kouchner, on 27 July, re-emphasising support for the AU-UN-led political process and calling on all invitees to attend the meeting in Arusha. They declared that...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Zimbabwe: Finance ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The EU targeted measures on Zimbabwe impose, inter alia, an assets freeze on individual members of the Government of Zimbabwe, including President Mugabe, which includes a prohibition on making funds or economic resources available, directly or indirectly, to them. The Bank of England, acting as an agent for HM Treasury, is responsible for making banks in the UK fully aware of this. Where...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Zimbabwe: Political Dialogue ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: President Mbeki presented a report on his mediation efforts to the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit held in Lusaka on 16 and 17 August. The SADC communiqué issued at the end of that summit noted that negotiations were progressing smoothly. We welcome the efforts made by President Mbeki and the SADC to facilitate dialogue between ZANU(PF) and the opposition party the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Zimbabwe: Visa Ban List ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The EU common position, which consists of a travel ban, an assets freeze list and an arms embargo, was extended for another year on 19 February 2007. At that time the list comprised 125 names. Five names were added on 16 April following a Zimbabwe Government Cabinet reshuffle in late February. As a consequence of the serious incidents of state-sponsored violence on 11 March and the...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Afghanistan: Opium Production ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: As Afghanistan's G8 "partner" nation on counter narcotics, the UK is helping the Afghan Government to improve the implementation of their national drug control strategy, spending £290 million over three years on counter narcotics and rule of law measures. On 9 August, I announced a new package of counter narcotics activities, designed to help accelerate the implementation of the Afghan...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Africa: Peacekeeping Brigade ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: We warmly welcomed the launch of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) regional standby brigade at the SADC Summit in Lusaka on 17 August. This was a strong public commitment by SADC member states to fulfil the region's contribution to the African Union's (AU) African Standby Force (ASF). The SADC brigade will be one of five regional forces that will collectively form the ASF....

Written Answers — House of Lords: Chagos Islands ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: I refer the noble Lord to the Answer given in another place by my right honourable friend the then Minister for Europe, Mr Douglas Alexander, to the honourable Member for St Ives, Andrew George, on 1 December 2005— Official Report, cols. 733-734W—which lists the sums the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has paid in respect of legal fees, principally to the Treasury Solicitor's Department...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Food: Child Labour ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The Government remain concerned by reports of child labour at cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast and the issue of trafficking. We are supporting international efforts to address the problem of child labour around the world through the work of the international Labour Organisation (ILO). The UK is a signatory to ILO Convention 182 which focuses on eliminating the worst forms of child labour. In...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Kenya: Daniel Moi ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The Kenyan authorities have not yet approached the UK for assistance on asset retrieval. Our High Commissioner in Nairobi has, on numerous occasions, advised the Kenyan authorities that the UK stands ready to assist.

Written Answers — House of Lords: Uganda: Human Rights ( 1 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: The UK, as a member of the local donor grouping on Peace and Democratisation in Uganda, regularly raise our concerns on human rights with the Government of Uganda. The last such meeting was with Foreign Minister Kutesa on 24 July. Although the details of these discussions are private, I can confirm that Karamoja is discussed. I welcome the latest report from the Office of the High...

Written Answers — House of Lords: Ghana: Cocoa Production ( 8 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: We are concerned by the findings of the Ghana Ministry of Manpower, Youth and Employment's pilot labour survey in cocoa production and are committed to tackling the problem of child labour in the developing world. We have raised the issue with the Ghanaian Government, most recently in May and through workshops in social protection in September. The Government of Ghana passed the Children's...

Written Answers — House of Lords: United Nations: Responsibility to Protect ( 8 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: We continue to uphold strongly the value of the concept of the responsibility to protect, to which all UN member states committed themselves during the world summit of 2005. Here, for the first time, world leaders agreed that Governments have the responsibility to protect their populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity within states. The UK believes...

Burma ( 9 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: My Lords, we condemn the violent manner in which the Burmese Government have dealt with recent peaceful demonstrations in Burma. The regime has again shown its contempt for human rights and democracy. We remain gravely concerned about the whereabouts and welfare of many of those detained. The UK has been working with others in the international community to put pressure on the regime to end...

Burma ( 9 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: My Lords, we all share with the noble Baroness the reaction to those extraordinary sights of the monks confronting armed troops in Burma, but we also recognise that the groups to which she referred have had much less visibility and publicity for their very long multi-year struggle, and we will certainly make sure that in any process of reconciliation their interests are respected and that...

Burma ( 9 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: My Lords, the noble Lord makes a very important point. The big difference on this occasion versus the last time that there were these kinds of protests in Burma is the role of Asia. Last time, Asia generally passed by on the other side and turned a blind eye to what had happened. On this occasion, we have seen very strong statements by ASEAN, a constructive role by China in securing the...

Burma ( 9 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: My Lords, my noble friend makes a very good point. In addition to securing the visa and the access to Burma of the UN envoy, Mr Ibrahim Gambari, China participated last Friday in the debate in the UN Security Council and was again playing a constructive role. That mirrors action that we are seeing by China on issues such as Darfur and Zimbabwe. China is engaging and is becoming a more...

Burma ( 9 Oct 2007)

Lord Malloch-Brown: My Lords, the noble Baroness can be reassured that we are a major contributor of humanitarian assistance and are looking to see what more we should do; the Prime Minister referred to that in another place. I will need to look into the issue of visits to prisoners. I do not know about that detail of Mr Gambari's visit.


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