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 …
Posts tagged International outlook
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
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Crimea: Compromise, Not Sanctions, is the Way Forward
Article by Lord Owen, Published in The Huffington Post 17 March, 2014
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 …
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David Owen: We cannot acquiesce to Egypt’s military coup
Published in The Evening Standard, 14 August, 2013
When Hamas won fair elections in the West Bank and Gaza, the EU made a great mistake in brushing the results aside and refusing recognition. Unless we are very careful we will …
