Category Archives: Middle East

Results of Blair and Bush talks are profoundly disappointing

Responding to the joint press conference held by the Prime Minister and President Bush, Liberal Democrat Leader, Ming Campbell MP said: This press conference was profoundly disappointing. It seems as if the Prime Minister is impervious to the views of …

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Britain is taken for granted in the so-called special relationship

Commenting on reports that the British government will make a formal complaint to the United States over the alleged use of Prestwick airport for transiting bombs to Israel over the weekend, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ming Campbell said: Any …

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Rome Conference promised little and delivered less

Following the Rome conference, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Ming Campbell said: This conference promised little and delivered less. Nothing was achieved which will make the people of Lebanon and Israel any safer. In the absence of an immediate ceasefire …

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UK must suspend arms exports to Israel

Liberal Democrat Leader, Ming Campbell, today wrote to the Prime Minister to ask him to suspend any further arms exports to Israel. In light of disproportionate military action by Israel in Lebanon and Gaza the UK Government must suspend any …

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Ceasefire now

Ming Campbell published the following article in the Guardian’s Comment is free on July 19, 2006 We are witnessing the serious destabilisation of the Middle East. It has the potential to deteriorate still further. My view is that the security …

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