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  1. LiveALone asked David Miliband MP: "Yaseen asked this question here: www.yoosk.com/fco: What is UK doing regarding the criminal activities and war crimes committed by Israel against the people of Gaza. It is a shame on anyone to stay..." Show more »"Yaseen asked this question here: www.yoosk.com/fco:

    What is UK doing regarding the criminal activities and war crimes committed by Israel against the people of Gaza.

    It is a shame on anyone to stay silent, speacially in a position of power like a forign minister.

    I want to be able to visit my family, which I am not allowed to, because of the Israeli imposed closure if Gaza, denying them the most basic human rights. It is disgracefull, that you are allowing it to happen while watching silently.
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Nov 28 2008 6:38:52 AM
  1. indiansummer asked David Miliband: "Aren't a lot of the problems in the Middle East and South Asia the result of some English Lord drawing lines on a map in the first half of the twentieth century? how can England get past that legacy?"
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  5. 1 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Nov 21 2008 5:27:36 PM
  1. indiansummer asked David Miliband: "Good for you for talking to Al Assad. But do you think he'll ever bring democracy to Syria? Is that important these days?"
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Nov 21 2008 5:15:53 PM
  1. quisquis asked David Miliband: "Hi, I would like to hear your opinion on whether it is not time to abolish the concept of "veto power" in the United Nations Security Council.  NB: I do not believe, that the system of "permanent seats"..." Show more »"Hi,
    I would like to hear your opinion on whether it is not time to abolish the concept of "veto power" in the United Nations Security Council.  NB: I do not believe, that the system of "permanent seats" should be changed, I am only referring to the veto power of the permanent members." Show less »
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Nov 21 2008 5:02:45 PM
  1. Yaseen asked David Miliband: "What is UK doing regarding the criminal activities and war crimes committed by Israel against the people of Gaza. It is a shame on anyone to stay silent, speacially in a position of power like a forign..." Show more »"What is UK doing regarding the criminal activities and war crimes committed by Israel against the people of Gaza.

    It is a shame on anyone to stay silent, speacially in a position of power like a forign minister.

    I want to be able to visit my family, which I am not allowed to, because of the Israeli imposed closure if Gaza, denying them the most basic human rights. It is disgracefull, that you are allowing it to happen while watching silently.

    Regards

    Yasin Abushaban" Show less »
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Nov 21 2008 4:53:07 PM
  1. dylanwr asked David Miliband: "I was wondering what would you think of an independent Wales that has a voice in the UN and international affairs but still a part of the United Kingdom?"
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Oct 28 2008 8:39:56 AM
  1. DJSwansea asked David Miliband: "Have any governments in the last few decades had any bad ideas on Foreign Policy-made any mistakes? I ask because you said something on BBC Wales about the UK having some of the best ideas on foreign ..." Show more »"Have any governments in the last few decades had any bad ideas on Foreign Policy-made any mistakes? I ask because you said something on BBC Wales about the UK having some of the best ideas on foreign policy-presumably we are also good at learning from our mistakes?" Show less »
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Oct 28 2008 8:38:01 AM
  1. william asked David Miliband: ""With the financial crisis in the UK, will the Govt review its policy on overseas Aid?""
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Oct 28 2008 8:36:11 AM
  1. robins asked David Miliband: "You mention in the introduction that "climate change" is a foreign policy issue. Could you explain in what way?"
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Oct 28 2008 8:26:48 AM
  1. rosssurfin asked Gordon Brown: "With Zimbabwe, an ex-Commonwealth country, in such a terrible state, why are we not doing more to help free the people, when we are more than willing to follow the Americans into Iraq?"
  2. Gordon Brown answer: "We asked Gordon Brown for an answer to this question and this is the reply we received from Downing Street: "With regards to your question relating to the Government's position on Zimbabwe, you may..." Show more»" We asked Gordon Brown for an answer to this question and this is the reply we received from Downing Street:

    "With regards to your question relating to the Government's position on Zimbabwe, you may wish to contact the Foreign and Commonwealth Office direct, as they are responsible for the matters raised. You can write to them at King Charles Street, Whitehall, London SW1A 2AH."

    A letter to this address was sent from Yoosk today. We will of course, keep you posted on any reply. "Show less«
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  4. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Apr 25 2008 1:19:05 PM
  1. Frings asked Lindsey German: "What is your reaction to news today that the cost, for this financial year, of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts is likely to reach £3.297bn?"
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  5. 0 comment   |  Topic: World Affairs   |   Email to friends   |   Apr 14 2008 7:40:30 AM
  1. lucy1983 asked Craig Murray: "Can a government ethically act on intelligence obtained through torture, if the intelligence is likely to prevent loss of life through, say, terrorist action?"
  2. Craig Murray answer: "I think the problem with this question is that it is often posed as an abstract philosophical conundrum, and we don't live in an abstract philosophical world. The question was put to me in the Foreign..." Show more»" I think the problem with this question is that it is often posed as an abstract philosophical conundrum, and we don't live in an abstract philosophical world. The question was put to me in the Foreign Office in the days when I was there trying to get the FO to stop using intelligence gained from torture. My management asked, quite directly, what do you do about the ticking bomb scenario? The trouble is that that's a Hollywood scenario, and life doesn't actually happen like that. There is very little point in arguing through abstract ethical situations - in real life intelligence from torture isn't very reliable. People will confess to anything through torture, and what you get from them is the answer that you want to hear. And the torturer isn't an abstract seeker of truth. It isn't the truth particularly the torturer wants, it's some thing that he wants to know. And remember, that torturer, in real life, isn't some noble and heroic person, he is some extremely unpleasant security official of Saudi Arabia or Uzbekistan, with his own very warped agenda. So, in practice what happens is the intelligence from torture comes from regimes which have themselves a very limited relationship with the truth. In November 2005 Dame Eliza Manningham Buller, then head of MI5, gave the ricin plot as an example of an occasion where evidence from torture abroad could save lives in the UK. (The evidence from the ricin plot came from torture in Algeria.) The trouble is, that information turned out to be totally bogus. What nobody remembers about the ricin plot was that everyone was found not guilty of conspiracy. The court found that there was no ricin and there was no plot. So this is an abstract philosophical question that doesn't relate to what happens in the real world. The vast majority of the intelligence you get from torture is untrue and simply clogs up and pollutes the intelligence