Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Department: Ministry of Defence

Oral Answers to Questions

Michael Fabricant Excerpts
Monday 12th December 2016

(7 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Fallon Portrait Sir Michael Fallon
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It is an intolerable situation: hospitals are being bombed and humanitarian aid convoys are being attacked. It is clear that Russia and the Syrian regime are not prepared to allow the aid that should get in to get in. There were discussions at the meeting of Foreign Ministers in Paris on Saturday, and there will be further discussions in the days ahead, but until Russia lifts its bar on getting aid into parts of eastern Aleppo, my fear is that a large number of people are going to die.

Michael Fabricant Portrait Michael Fabricant (Lichfield) (Con)
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Will the Secretary of State join me—I am sorry; I have lost my voice, which will please many people in this House. Will the Secretary of State join me in condemning those who have condemned in turn our deployment of troops in Estonia as provocative? Does he agree that the Baltic states themselves have welcomed it in the face of Russian aggression?

John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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A very good croak indeed in the circumstances.