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A New Partnership with the EU
Tuesday 17th January 2017

(7 years, 11 months ago)

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My Lords, we will hear from the Lib Dem Benches.

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The Government accepted the Israeli ambassador’s explanation but, on Sunday, the UK failed to send a Minister to the Paris meeting on the peace process and yesterday the UK vetoed the EU’s support for the conclusions of that meeting. Can the Minister assure us that on Israel/Palestine the Government are not distancing themselves from our European neighbours and seeking favour with a very unpredictable new US President?

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