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Lord Owen, speaking in the House of Lords Queen’s Speech Debate, Tuesday 7 January 2020.
My Lords, as we talk in this Chamber, the Middle East is once again a powder keg of extreme danger…. We have to ask ourselves now what mechanisms we have for restarting (a) dialogue; it has not restarted and shows no real sign of restarting…. (The) UN Secretary-General and the UN Security Council have a
Lord Owen interviewed by Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning – Monday 9 April 2018 (full recording below).
“Unlike in 2013 when Obama was not contemplating serious action (which I did not support), it now looks as if the US are serious and are not prepared to accept Assad continuing as the Syrian President in any peace. Russia will have to get used to this, and the UK and France …
Lord Owen’s speech to the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, delivered Thursday 16 November 2017.
Download the full text here: LordOwenMoscowSpeech
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 …
“The humanitarian imperative is for the region to act and the world to help.”
Read the full piece as carried by the WorldPost section of the Huffington Post here: syriahuffpost27-9-16
Extracts: In repeated interviews and articles on the deepening tragedy that is Syria, many carried by the Huffington Post, I have argued that a necessary element for peace in Syria is an initial partition or zones of influence from neighbouring …
Speech to International Diploma in Humanitarian Assistance students, Chateau de Bossey, Geneva, Tuesday 23 February, 2016
“The humanitarian crisis in Syria has gone on so long ….. that we can lose sight of the military dangers that are now threatening the Middle East…
“It has long been feared in NATO that the Syrian crisis would spill over into a wider war, but that moment is closer now than it has …
Lord Owen writes to The Times welcoming Nato’s decision to take up his idea of reviving the Russia-Nato Council “for better political co-operation with Moscow”. (Click on the letter to enlarge it.)
“To delay the referendum is not acceptable. To do anything in this House, either through ping-pong or otherwise, that would delay the undoubted constitutional right of the Prime Minister to choose the timing of his announcement – and therefore, following his announcement, the timing of the referendum – would be absurd.
“…. the giving of a referendum is a right for Members of Parliament and nobody else, because it curtails …
Writing to The Times, Lord Owen proposes several concrete steps in dealing with Isis that should be taken after the Paris attacks. (Click on the image to enlarge it.)
