Extract from Foreign Affairs Committee membership debate - Mar 19
Wednesday, 20 March 2019 08:34
Joan Ryan (Enfield North) (Ind):...In total, my hon. Friend the
Member for Ilford South has served for 19 years on the Committee,
with five years as Chair from 2005 to 2010. During his tenure as
Chair, the Committee published reports on Afghanistan, Pakistan,
the implications of cuts to the BBC World Service and to foreign
language capability in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office,
relations with Turkey, the Arab spring, human rights, extraordinary
rendition, the future of the EU and...Request free trial
(Enfield North)
(Ind):...In total, my hon. Friend the Member for Ilford
South has served for 19 years on the Committee, with five years as
Chair from 2005 to 2010. During his tenure as Chair, the Committee
published reports on Afghanistan, Pakistan, the implications of
cuts to the BBC World Service and to foreign language capability in
the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, relations with Turkey, the
Arab spring, human rights, extraordinary rendition, the future of
the EU and relations with the United States. And that is not all:
in his time as Chair of the Committee, my hon. Friend took evidence
from the Dalai Lama, despite Chinese protests, visited Guantanamo
Bay, and exposed corruption and intimidation that led to the UK
Government suspending relations with the Turks and Caicos Government, and it was
only after the Committee criticised the Syrian Government that the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office included Syria as a human rights
country of concern. My hon. Friend has also been a convenor and for
10 years a member of the quadripartite Committees on Arms Export
Controls...
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