Daesh: Syria/Iraq

Michael Tomlinson Excerpts
Wednesday 16th December 2015

(8 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Michael Tomlinson Portrait Michael Tomlinson (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (Con)
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I welcome the Foreign Secretary’s continued commitment to a political solution and to further peace talks, but does he agree that it is important to include and involve as wide a range of countries as possible, including Iran, in order to ensure that all parties get round the table in Syria?

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait Mr Hammond
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Yes, and one of the great achievements of the Vienna process is that Iran, along with Saudi Arabia, is engaged, so two countries that have not been conspicuous by their ability to talk each other are now talking to each other across a table in Vienna or this week in New York. That is a positive achievement.