Middle East and North Africa

David Morris Excerpts
Tuesday 26th April 2011

(13 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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We provided the note on the legal advice in order for the House to have a debate and for it to take a very important decision. History showed that the House really did want to know more about the legal advice in such circumstances, but I am not going to commit the Government to doing so on a case-by-case or continuous basis.

David Morris Portrait David Morris (Morecambe and Lunesdale) (Con)
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Should Colonel Gaddafi be deposed, or go by whatever means, would he be subject to the 1970 human rights Act—I am sorry, not human rights—[Interruption.] If I may carry on, would he be subject to the war crimes part of UN resolution 1970?

Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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That depends on what Colonel Gaddafi has done. The International Criminal Court is looking into that at the moment. As I said, we expect a report from the prosecutor of the ICC to the United Nations next Wednesday, 4 May. That will be the next development in this subject and it is the ICC that will come to a view about it.