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Ukraine: Once again, we must recognise that appeasement never works.

Lord Owen addressing the House of Lords, 21 September 2023. Read the full speech here

“…We should never forget that we are talking about the second invasion of Ukraine. There was a first invasion, in relation to which we performed lamentably. Once again, we must recognise that appeasement never works. Now that we face this situation, we in Europe must not equivocate…

“The spirit is there in this country, the


Ukraine dam sabotage: Lord Owen urges ‘a decisive response’

Interview on GBNews’ Sunday with Michael Portillo’, 11 June 2023. View here

“… environmentalists really ought to be out there marching in protest to this extraordinary catastrophe that has been brought upon Ukraine by this military action.

“…This must not be allowed to become a third world war but the way to stop that is a decisive response to this ecocide. I believe the British people recognise that and are …


We are on the threshold of another war in the Middle East involving Lebanon and the surrounding countries. It is imperative that Russia and the US start a process to help stabilise the region.

Lord Owen’s speech to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, delivered Thursday 16 November 2017.

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In the speech, Lord Owen argues “We are on the threshold of another war in the Middle East involving Lebanon and the surrounding countries. It is imperative that Russia and the US start a process to help stabilise the region using the P5 +1 mechanism with others …


Speech by Lord Owen in The House of Lords: Role of Russia in Upholding International Law

Speech by Lord Owen in The House of Lords, 16 October 2014

My Lords, I have been involved in business in Russia since 1995—mainly with a steel firm in Stary Oskol, some 600 kilometres south of Moscow—because I believed then and believe now that through business relations we will best establish good relations between the United Kingdom and Russia. I have also been a very strong believer in the …


Putin is key to avoiding a new cold war

Article by Lord Owen, published in The Guardian 26 August 2014

If the presidents of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine meet as planned in Minsk tomorrow, it will inevitably recall the time leaders of those same republics met to dissolve the USSR at the Belavezha hunting lodge in Belarus on 8 December 1991.

Then, the key figure was the president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin. Now it is Vladimir Putin.


It’s Time for the World to Turn to the United Nations to Broker an Israeli-Palestinian Peace

Article by Lord Owen published in The Huffington Post, 1 August 2014

LONDON – Ceasefires come and go between the Israelis and Palestinians while the death toll mounts. Only the United Nations General Assembly can mobilize world opinion. Nothing else seems likely to break the deadlock. The Security Council is un- able to move because of an implicit American veto hanging over its proceedings.
The important development over Gaza is …


Charge Blair with contempt of Parliament – only then will we know if he lied over Iraq

Article by Lord Owen, published in The Mail On Sunday, 1 June 2014

From the embers of one war spark the flames of another.
There can be no doubt that the 2003 Iraq war and the insurgency that followed has been an important contributor to the civil war now devastating Syria – a reason, if another was needed, to forensically examine Tony Blair’s actions of more than a decade ago. …


Crimea: Compromise, Not Sanctions, is the Way Forward

Article by Lord Owen, Published in The Huffington Post 17 March, 2014

Crimea Vote

Territorial disputes are only solved after long, hard negotiations. The only recent exception in Europe has been the very successful velvet divorce conducted without referendums or threats of violence by politicians in what was Czechoslovakia. Let us not forget either that that was achieved in the teeth of opposition from European governments and the Russian Federation who wanted …