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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 May 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"I understand the point the hon. Lady is making and, as a lawyer, I very much appreciate the importance of the international fight against crime and money laundering, but will she concede that at least some overseas territories take their obligations very seriously? For example, Gibraltar, which is part of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 May 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"I understand my right hon. Friend’s desire to achieve this measure and recognise the work that he has done on it, but I want to follow on from the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for North West Norfolk (Sir Henry Bellingham). The Government of Spain, for example, …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 May 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"I welcome everything my right hon. Friend has done around the Magnitsky law and the fact that the Government have accepted it. Is he aware that the Government and Parliament of Gibraltar have already introduced a Magnitsky law, which indicates their willingness to be ahead of the game, rather than …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 May 2018
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill [Lords]

"I thank my right hon. Friend for giving way on that important point. Does he accept that it is for that reason, and that reason only, that the Chief Minister of Gibraltar wrote the letter in the way that he did—because it is the constitutional convention that we do not …..."
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Written Question
Romania: Politics and Government
Thursday 22nd March 2018

Asked by: Robert Neill (Conservative - Bromley and Chislehurst)

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment he has made of the level of political interference in the (a) judiciary and (b) judicial system in Romania.

Answered by Alan Duncan

Our Embassy in Bucharest monitors developments in Romania’s judiciary and judicial system, including by meeting regularly with Romanian Ministers, officials, members of the judicial and law enforcement institutions and civil society representatives. Foreign and Commonwealth Office staff use this information to update and provide advice to Ministers on this issue on an ongoing basis.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Thu 01 Mar 2018
International Court of Justice

"I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his statement, and to the Select Committee for its work. Does he agree that this is particularly disappointing because the United Kingdom has historically had an immensely high reputation in international law and international tribunals, and has some of the most experienced …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"8. What discussions he has had with his international counterparts on the breakdown in the rule of law in Venezuela...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 11 Jul 2017
Oral Answers to Questions

"The Leader of the Opposition described the regime in Venezuela as offering an “alternative agenda” from which we could learn. The alternative agenda has seen the economy collapse and poverty increase. It has seen scores of people killed in civil unrest and now an attempt to undermine both the elected …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Mon 30 Jan 2017
US Immigration Policy

"The Foreign Secretary is to be congratulated on working to protect the rights of British nationals, but will he also consider that he would not be telling an ally how to run its own country by reminding it, in calm and firm terms, that our shared relationship is based on …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2016
Turkey

"I welcome my right hon. Friend’s well-deserved return to the Front Bench. Does he understand that it is difficult to characterise the arrest of thousands of judges as a proportionate response to an act—however outrageous? Turkey’s membership of the Council of Europe must hang in the balance if it does …..."
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