The taliban shows little sign of being released or able to negotiate or respect our constitutional order. Our womens rights for democracy. They have actually become more extreme in their deliberate attacks against civilian population. I know held rules they are. I lived through their rule. If we focus on political transgression which a new government, a fresh mandate backed by bilateral Security Agreements we can create incentives for the taliban and pakistan. For them to rethink their strategy and to one that is more inclusive. Our security, mr. Chairman. The newfound strength and courage of our Security Forces has been demonstrated by the speed with which they have closed down recent affects the mesh attacks on our capital with minimal loss of life but we still face challenges. Our forces are already missing the coalition enablers support. Senator corker spoke about that. Where the force is not in place, people want to serve in the air force, takes more time. Technical knowledge, mil
Order. Statement, the secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs. Money rocks money rocks. Secretary william hayes. Mr. Speaker, with permission ill make a statement on the crisis in syria. The time has come to announce to the house necessary developments in our policy and our readiness to develop it further if the bloodshed continues. Two years after it gans began, 10,000 people have died since i last updated the house in early january. That means more people have died in the first two months of this year than in the whole of the first year of the conflict. The total estimated death toll is now over 70,000 people. The regime has used scud Ballistic Missiles against civilian areas and theres evidence of grave Human Rights Violations, war crimes and crimes against humanity including massacres, torture, summary executions and a systematic policy of rape and Sexual Violence by the Regime Forces and its militia. A year ago one Million People needed humanitarian aid inside syri
The effectiveness of past u. S. And u. N. Sanctions. This hearing has been on the same day the u. N. Security council not to impose tougher sanctions on north korea for its recent Nuclear Tests. This is just over two hours. This hearing on north korea will come to order. On february the 12th, north korea conducted its third test, his most powerful test today. A Nuclear Weapon, a smaller weapon because north korea is working on miniaturizing a sweatband in order to place it on the head of an icbm. This followed decembers launch of a three stage Ballistic Missile. Weve had test after test, broken promise after broken promise and successive administrations, both republican and democrat have clung to an unrealistic hope that one day, north korea will negotiate away its Nuclear Programs. If they hope in a 1994, many senior members here shaer when they pass agreement in 18 years ago with north korea. But during that whole period of time we attempted to engage, we found instead that north kor
Short halflife is to move over the other side of the fence with brahimi. On our side, this is not a popular view, but to join in with preconditions to negotiations and drop them all, theres no good negotiation, in my view, that starts with the other side requiring it to give up as a consequence. That is not realistic. I do not know why we jump on that . It may have been seen as the one element necessary to keep the syrian obligation together what we tried to move in the other direction, but now that he has made his point of view, we have something of an open door. I would verily like to see, and i do not think the iranians would support it come about the humanitarian ceasefire based on the commitments in negotiations. I also have my own doubts as to whether a Transitional Government makes so much sense and whether we ought not to arrive to elections. The Syrian Election Commission and the u. N. Election commission might be a better way. We can argue for a year and a half about a commis
Least aware of the fact that they assaad, might have a short halflife is to move over the other side of the fence with brahimi. On our side, this is not a popular view, but to join in with preconditions to negotiations and drop them all, theres no good negotiation, in my view, that starts with the other side requiring it to give up as a consequence. That is not realistic. I do not know why we jump on that . It may have been seen as the one element necessary to keep the syrian obligation together what we tried to move in the other direction, but now that he has made his point of view, we have something of an open door. I would verily like to see, and i do not think the iranians would support it come about the humanitarian ceasefire based on the commitments in negotiations. I also have my own doubts as to whether a Transitional Government makes so much sense and whether we ought not to arrive to elections. The Syrian Election Commission and the u. N. Commission election Election Commissi