The Official Website
It is hard to exaggerate the gravity of the situation today in Gaza and now in the Lebanon.
…[we must first] recognise why Hamas invaded from Gaza on 7 October 2023. Scarcely three weeks before, there had been a review of the success of the Abraham Accords whereby the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco had pursued peaceful negotiations with Israel…. Hamas had one single major objective – to destroy those …
Lord Owen to Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron: “(would it not) be a very good thing if the French & British Heads of Government met to discuss their own targeting strategies to their nuclear weapons in Europe & give some guidance to the Russians about (British-French) attitudes to (Russia’s) constant invocation of nuclear weapons being used in Ukraine?”
View Lord Owen’s full question, & Lord Cameron’s response, here: read the
House of Lords: Foreign Secretary’s Questions, 12 March 2024. Full exchange here.
Lord Owen: Can (the Foreign Secretary) assure us that manufacturing in this country of weapons & munitions for Ukraine will be stepped up considerably over the next few weeks & months? Lord Cameron: I think I can give that undertaking…The Government are fully aware that we need to step up production, not just for Ukraine but to… …
Lord Owen addressing u3a meeting, Hungerford, 12 March 2024. Full speech here.
“..my normal optimism about the unlikelihood of nuclear warfare has recently been transformed… Macron & Sunak (should) cross the ‘rubicon’ and announce that they will maximise total military effort and ensure the minimum overlapping of their nuclear targeting of hostile states …. This would be hugely significant: overlap reduces the effectiveness of both countries’ nuclear deterrence.”
‘Is the UK right to strike Houthi Rebels in Yemen? Former Foreign Secretary assesses the dilemma’. Interview broadcast on GB News 12 January 2024. View it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D07ZliyGbO4
“…the free navigation of shipping … is an integral part of a civilized world and you can’t allow this to be changed by the actions of countries acting under the influence of Iran..”
…
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
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 …
“This timely new edition…advances our understanding of past British-Russian relations and the present conflict…(written) through the lens of a former cabinet minister who has seen diplomacy close-up,” notes reviewer Richard Foot MP in The House magazine 20 February 2023. “Owen has found his subject move in the last 18 months from being a fringe concern to being central to global security.”