Syria: anti-Government Forces Debate

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Syria: anti-Government Forces

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Points of Order
Monday 4th March 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Swire Portrait Mr Swire
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My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will no doubt wish when addressing the House to update Members on the situation in Turkey, as well as that in all other neighbouring countries and others closely involved in Syria.

Julian Brazier Portrait Mr Julian Brazier (Canterbury) (Con)
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May I urge my right hon. Friend to put Lebanon at the heart of the Government’s considerations? It is a country that has been repeatedly destabilised and brutalised by the Assad regime and which currently enjoys the only cross-confessional army in the area, which is widely respected.

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My hon. Friend mentions another country affected directly by the actions of the Syrian regime—and a country I know well—and clearly we have to watch the situation there. I think the Foreign Secretary was in Lebanon as recently as last week and again will want to update the House on what he discussed there. He met refugees, among others, while he was there.

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