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Death of Alexei Navalny - Statement (19 Feb 2024)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...of Alexei Navalny, whether at the hands of the regime or indirectly because of the conditions that were inflicted on him, is not a sign of strength but of weakness; not a sign of authority but of cowardice; not a sign of firmness but of fragility deep inside the regime of Vladimir Putin today. I therefore ask the Minister, on behalf of the Government, to look again at the sanctions policy...

Ukraine - Motion to Take Note (26 Jan 2024)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...; it is what people hear. That one man in the Kremlin needs to hear—has to hear—that we are with Ukraine until it prevails. Sir Basil Liddell Hart, one of great strategists of the Second World War, wisely said that the outcome of the battle will more likely be determined in the minds of the commanders than in the bodies of their men. It is into the mind of Vladimir Putin that we need...

Ukraine - Motion to Take Note (21 Sep 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...Vladimir Putin or the small group around him who tell him what he wants to hear. We should not underestimate his capacity for limitless cruelty against the Ukrainians, given the dreadful war crimes already committed, as outlined by the noble and gallant Lord, Lord Stirrup, and the forced abduction of children—for which the admirable International Criminal Court has now indicted him. We...

Defence Command Paper Refresh - Statement (19 Jul 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...debating and discussing this at the fag-end of the day, just before the Summer Recess? Will the Minister reflect on the fact that the last time we had a full-scale debate on the subject of a war in which we are participating was a year ago? Will she take the message back to her department and through it to the Prime Minister that Winston Churchill came to Parliament almost every week...

Defence Policy (International Relations and Defence Committee Report) - Motion to Take Note (30 Jun 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...acknowledged to be a fundamental change in the security environment we live in, why have we had so little time allocated to debate these issues? This is only the second debate in this House on the war in Ukraine and its enormous implications since the invasion took place 16 months ago—and this debate is not even actually about Ukraine. There have of course been a number of Statements,...

Ukraine - Motion to Take Note ( 9 Feb 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: My Lords, it is good to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Meyer, who has worked hard as the Prime Minister’s envoy on Ukraine. It is also good to look forward to the maiden contribution of the noble Lord, Lord Soames, who is not only an old colleague and friend but a former Minister for the Armed Forces, with a distinguished record that was only enhanced by him being denied the Conservative...

Armed Forces: Resilience - Motion to Take Note (26 Jan 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...Day, and his remarkable record for philanthropy, not only to the Armed Forces but to institutions such as the Natural History Museum. He has a lot of experience and wisdom, and we therefore look forward to hearing more from him in future. I will speak about Ukraine, about which we really should have a full debate in this Parliament, both in this House and in the other House. It is...

Ukraine: Update - Statement (19 Jan 2023)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...Ukraine at this difficult time. The Ukrainians are defending themselves but, in defending their country and themselves, they are defending us as well. Vladimir Putin has made it clear that he is at war with the West and with us; we must take that extremely seriously. The decision to send the Challenger tanks is a good one. I hope that it will put additional pressure on the German...

Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II - Tributes (Continued) (10 Sep 2022)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...and extremism were tearing, but never destroying, our communal fabric. With our latest Prime Minister and the nation facing serious crises in energy, the cost of living, health and a foreign war, her example of cool, clear thinking is more necessary than ever it was. As these two days of debate have shown, we all have memories of Her Majesty the Queen, especially those of us who had the...

Sue Gray Report - Statement (31 Jan 2022)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: My Lords, one of my predecessors as Secretary-General of NATO was Lord Carrington. During the Falklands War, although he bore no direct responsibility for the invasion of the Falkland Islands, in honour and in dignity he took full responsibility and resigned as Foreign Secretary of this country. Does the noble Baroness not think that the Prime Minister might like to follow the example of that...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Commons Reason and Amendments: Motion A (28 Apr 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...that they seek to uphold. They will not face the prospect of being subject to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Nor will we, this United Kingdom, become the precedent for every warlord or war criminal to say that our presumption against prosecution after five years would give them some sort of carte blanche to be let off the hook. Improving—some might say...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Commons Reasons and Amendments: Motion A1 (as an amendment to Motion A) (26 Apr 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...genocide, torture and crimes against humanity in the excluded areas of the presumption against prosecution, they have rescued their own reputation. Of course, until today, they had excluded war crimes from those exclusions; at that point, we faced the ludicrous contradiction that meant that we would have seen a presumption against prosecution for some of the most heinous crimes that come...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Report: Amendment 3 (13 Apr 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...3 is in my name and that of the noble Lord, Lord Alton, and my noble friends Lord Campbell and Lord West. The amendment will provide that the presumption against prosecution does not apply to war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and torture. Maybe after a lifetime in politics I was affected by some uncharacteristic naivety in thinking that the Government, faced by almost universal...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 14 ( 9 Mar 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ..., the Government could not mobilise one single Member of the House to come and defend the position on this amendment. I am not surprised, and I can see the difficulty that she has in putting forward the argument. I listened to see whether I could be persuaded by what she said—after all, some of the officials who used to work for me may still be there and producing the rationale for her...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Committee (1st Day): Amendment 14 ( 9 Mar 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...stands in my name and those of the noble Lords, Lord Alton and Lord Campbell of Pittenweem, and my noble friend Lord West. It provides that the presumption against prosecution does not apply to war crimes, crimes against humanity or torture. I am an instinctive supporter of our Armed Forces and the civilians who support them. I always was, but as Secretary of State for Defence and then...

Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill - Second Reading (20 Jan 2021)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...decision, occasioned by this kind of Bill. Secondly, I strongly agree with those in the Commons, and in this debate, and in the country, who cannot see the justification for exempting torture and war crimes from the list in the Bill. By including torture and war crimes, this new apparent statute of impunity seems incongruous and indefensible. My own former Chief of Defence, the noble and...

Queen’s Speech - Debate (2nd Day) (Continued) ( 7 Jan 2020)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...about serving, it is about reflecting, it is about representing. And I believe the House of Lords offers that opportunity”. In that, and in many other things, she is absolutely right. We look forward to hearing more from her in the future. This Government came to power last month with a mandate and a majority gifted by, let it be said, the incompetence and stupidity of the Labour...

NATO - Motion to Take Note ( 2 Apr 2019)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...its military and political power to stop the carnage in Bosnia and to end and reverse the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. After that, we saw it join up with the European Union to prevent a bloody civil war developing in what is now known as North Macedonia—a good new story to cheer us in the 70th year of NATO, with that new country coming into the alliance. After the trauma of the 9/11...

Offensive Weapons Bill - Report (2nd Day): Amendment 95 ( 4 Mar 2019)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...weapons. A .50 calibre rifle sounds almost innocuous, but they are basically sniper rifles that can take out a vehicle and human beings at a mile’s distance. These are formidable weapons in war. They are highly prized and valued in conflict given their accuracy and lethality. I recall as Defence Secretary going to Bosnia and watching Operation Harvest involving members of the Royal...

Afghanistan Update - Statement (11 Jul 2018)

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen: ...yet to make a speech about Afghanistan, yet our forces have been committed over that long period and have substantial successes behind them. Therefore, will more efforts be made in the information war to get out to the British public why their security and the security of the alliance, which is being questioned today in Brussels, depend on the resolution and unity of the North Atlantic...


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