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Mark Durkan Excerpts
Tuesday 29th November 2011

(12 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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Yes, my hon. Friend points to a very important development. We have long advocated the liberalising and the opening up of the Indian economy. This will be vastly beneficial to the people of India and to the growth of trade. We want to see progress made on a free trade agreement between India and the whole of the European Union.

Mark Durkan Portrait Mark Durkan (Foyle) (SDLP)
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Of all the principal concerns and exhortations that the Foreign Secretary has conveyed to the Israeli Government, to which, if any, have they paid most attention?

Lord Hague of Richmond Portrait Mr Hague
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I hope, of course, that they will pay attention to the entirety of our representations, and to the strong feeling in this House and across the world that it is important to make a decisive move to reach a two-state solution to help to avoid the future strategic isolation of Israel. It is, therefore, the entirety of our representations that I would urge upon them.