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News Archive
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'THE SOONER WE DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS, THE SOONER WE CAN START REBUILDING AFGHANISTAN'
Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, writes in the Guardian newspaper on 26 October that too often in the past, the people of Afghanistan have been dealt a 'raw deal' by the international community but for the first time, there is now a global coalition committed to rebuilding Afghanistan, feeding its people, and providing them with a more stable future, and 'a collective desire to bring Afghanistan back into the family of nations'. However, this can only come as part of a long-term strategy, Mr Straw maintains, and that strategy has to include the present military campaign.
'WALES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION'
In a speech about Wales, the euro and jobs on 26 October, Minister for Europe, Peter Hain, told Welsh business people about the many benefits to be gained from economic cooperation with Europe. 'UK and Welsh industries are more competitive', he said, 'because they have access to the largest single market in the world'. Active participation in that market, he added, will mean more jobs, more inward investment and new opportunities in a environment of structural reform and a liberalised economy. He also warned of the dangers of remaining isolated, saying that it was not inconsistent to be patriotic at the same time as being involved in Europe. Summing up he said he wanted to see, '...a prosperous, safe, socially just Europe...in which we can all be proud and which we should lead'.
HAIN BLASTS EUROSCEPTICS FOR ‘LACKING PATRIOTISM’
FCO Minister for Europe, Peter Hain, has called for more to be done to explain the benefits to the British people of EU membership in a speech in Cardiff. Mr Hain said that the ‘so-called Euro-sceptics’ were not only sceptical of Europe, but resolutely opposed to it. Their policy of isolation was ‘fundamentally unpatriotic’. Leaving Europe would damage British trade, prosperity and jobs. The patriotic approach was for Britain to be at the heart of Europe, engaging with confidence.
MINISTERIAL ENGAGEMENTS
In addition to their regular official and parliamentary duties, FCO Ministers have the following public engagements...
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