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Reports from the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees Session 2012-13 by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence Pdf
Dated October 2012. Responses to 1st joint report from the Committees, HC 419-I, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215046772)
Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Author : Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Publisher : Unknown Page : 45 pages File Size : 53,6 Mb Release : 2011-07-07 Category : Export controls ISBN : 0101807929
Reports from the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees Session 2010-11 by Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Pdf
Dated July 2011. Responses to 1st joint report from the Committees, HC 686, session 2010-11 (ISBN 9780215558992)
Scrutiny of arms export controls (2011) by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Pdf
This is the first joint report on arms export controls since the present Government took office in May 2010. As in previous years, the report reviews the Government's policy on arms exports, its administration and enforcement, and the adequacy or otherwise of current legislation. This year the Committees have paid particular attention to the Government's policy of intensifying the promotion of arms exports. The policy has come under scrutiny following the uprisings and demonstrations in recent weeks in North Africa and the wider Middle East and the armed response made to them. Since January 2011 the Government has been vigorously backpedalling on a number of arms export licence approvals to authoritarian regimes across the region. The MPs conclude that both the present Government and its predecessor misjudged the risk that arms approved for export to certain authoritarian countries in North Africa and the Middle East might be used for internal repression. The Committees welcome the revocation of a number of arms export licences to Bahrain, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, and recommend that the Government extends immediately its review of UK arms export licences for countries in North Africa and the wider Middle East to authoritarian regimes worldwide. The Government should also set out how it intends to reconcile the potential conflict of interest between increased emphasis on promoting arms exports with the staunch upholding of human rights.
Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
Author : Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Publisher : Unknown Page : 61 pages File Size : 52,9 Mb Release : 2013-10-08 Category : Export controls ISBN : 0101870728
Reports from the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees Session 2013-14 by Great Britain. Ministry of Defence,Great Britain,Great Britain. Parliament,Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office,Great Britain. Department for International Development,Great Britain. Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Pdf
Dated October 2013. Responses to 1st joint report from the Committees, HC 205, session 2013-14 (ISBN 9780215060068)
The FCO's Human rights work 2010-11 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf
The Foreign Affairs Committee believes the events of the 'Arab Spring' should stand as a reminder to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) that failing to take a stronger and more consistent stance against human rights violations by overseas regimes can carry risks for the UK. Any suggestion that the FCO downplays criticism of human rights abuses in countries with which the UK has close political and commercial links is damaging to the UK's reputation and undermines the department's overall work in promoting human rights overseas. The Committee is less confident than the FCO that there is little conflict between its simultaneous pursuit of both UK commercial interests and improved human rights standards overseas. The Committee heard concerns on this front with respect to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain in particular. There should be a more robust and significantly more consistent position on human rights violations in the Middle East and North Africa. On China, the Committee finds it difficult to support the Government's approach to human rights engagement with China in the continuing absence of any evidence that it is yielding results, and when the human rights situation in China appears to be deteriorating. The Government should engage in more explicit, hard-hitting and consistent public criticisms of human rights abuses in China. The Committee welcomes the FCO's continued production of an annual human rights report and the Government's recognition that the UK's own human rights practices affect its international reputation and ability to pursue improvements in human rights standards overseas.
Scrutiny of arms export controls (2010) by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Pdf
The joint committee is known as the Committees on Arms Export Controls, formerly the Quadripartite Committee. The UK strategic export controls annual report 2008 was published as Cm. 7662 (ISBN 9780101766227)
House of Commons - Foreign Affairs Committee: The UK's Relations with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain - HC 88 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain remain key partners for the UK but relations are complicated by the differences between our societies and the pressing need for reform in the Gulf. Historic warm relations between the UK government and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are not mirrored in public opinion in Saudi Arabia and the UK, and the UK's reputation in Bahrain has also suffered since 2011. The Government must make its public profile and reputation a more central part of its work in the Gulf, consider how it can best support much-needed economic and political reforms, and how it can explain its policies and point to specific achievements when speaking to the public at home and in the Gulf. In Saudi Arabia, the Government must convert its promising steps so far in providing assistance on legal and judicial reform into solid and reportable programmes. In Bahrain, it must work to secure access for NGOs and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, and press more strongly for swifter implementation of reforms. Saudi Arabia's role as a key buyer for the UK defence industry is controversial but the report finds little to suggest that ending defence sales from the UK would have any positive effect. The aggressive way in which the Bahraini security forces handled events in 2011 has deeply damaged Bahrain's reputation. The recommendations of the Bahrain Independent Commission of Inquiry (BICI) were sensible and the Bahraini government's failure fully to implement them is inexplicable.
Scrutiny of arms export controls (2012) by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Business, Innovation and Skills Committee Pdf
The Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) believe that the Government should apply significantly more cautious judgements on the export of arms to authoritarian regimes which might be used for internal repression. The Committees have scrutinised in unprecedented detail the Government's latest (2010) Annual Report on Strategic Export Controls (HC 1402, session 2011-12, ISBN 9780102973662), the Government's quarterly information on individual export licence approvals and refusals, and the Government's policies and performance on arms export controls and on arms control generally. The Committees conclude that the Government's review of its policies and practices on arms exports following the Arab Spring should not have been carried out merely as "an internal review" and should instead have been the subject of public consultation in accordance with the Government's stated policy of transparency on arms exports. And whilst the Government's introduction of a new licence suspension mechanism is welcome, this is not sufficient to ensure that arms exported are not used for internal repression overseas because in many cases the arms will have left the UK before suspension occurs. The Government should extend its arms export policy review from countries in the Middle East and North Africa to authoritarian regimes and countries of human rights concern worldwide. Annex 7 of the report gives selected arms export licence approvals by the Government to countries of human rights concern, and the report also contains details of the extant UK Government approved arms export licences to Argentina, Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen.
Reports from the Business, Innovation and Skills, Defence, Foreign Affairs and International Development Committees Session 2014-15 by Great Britain: Ministry of Defence Pdf
Dated October 2014. Response to HCP 186, session 2014-15 (ISBN 9780215075415). A TSO version of a title previously published by HM Government.
Government Foreign Policy Towards the United States - HC 695 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf
This reports finds that the Coalition Government has developed in public a more mature and measured relationship with the US, although there has been no fundamental change in the nature of the tie. The Committee declares the relationship to be in good health. In particular, the Committee said that it was not aware of any evidence that the House of Commons vote in August 2013 against potential military action in Syria had damaged the UK's relationship with the US. Rather, the Committee concluded that the episode illustrated general features of the UK-US relationship, namely that developments in the UK could influence US policy; and that the underlying tie was resilient. Today's publication follows up a report produced by the previous Foreign Affairs Committee at the end of the last Parliament, which recommended that the UK Government should adopt a more hard-headed and less deferential approach to the US. The Coalition Government seemed to have taken up this recommendation. The Committee criticises the UK Government's poor provision of information about the UK-US Joint Strategy Board, which was created during President Obama's State Visit to the UK in May 2011. Among strategic issues that it considered, the Committee agreed with the Government that the proposed EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) could have significant positive strategic impact for the UK and the transatlantic relationship.
House of Commons: Sessional Returns - HC 1 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons Pdf
On cover and title page: House, committees of the whole House, general committees and select committees. On title page: Returns to orders of the House of Commons dated 14 May 2013 (the Chairman of Ways and Means)
The FCO's Human Rights Work 2011 by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs Committee Pdf
It is inevitable that the UK will have strategic, commercial or security-related interests overseas which have the potential to conflict with its human rights work, says the Foreign Affairs Committee in a report published today. The Government should not be trying to assert that the two can co-exist freely: it should instead be explaining publicly its judgments on how to balance them in particular cases. The Committee's recommendation comes in the light of the FCO's decision not to designate Bahrain as a "country of concern" in its 2011 report on its human rights work, despite the repression of demonstrations in Bahrain in 2011. The Committee recommends that the criteria for designation should be based purely on assessments of human rights standards and should not be coloured by strategic or other considerations. The Committee also challenges the Government for being inconsistent in not taking a public stance on the Bahrain Grand Prix but boycotting group stage games at Euro 2012 in Ukraine. On rendition, the Committee finds that the protracted police investigations had an unacceptable impact on the work of the Gibson Inquiry and of relevant committees. The Government should explain why current investigations into claims of rendition made by two Libyans are expected to take so long. The Committee accepts that enough progress has been made in Burma to justify some relaxation of the EU's sanctions regime, but it says that Burma's human rights record remains seriously blemished. It recommends that the UK should call for better access to those still detained as political prisoners, and should press the Burmese authorities to allow independent observers to visit Rakhine state, to assess the extent to which the rights of the Rohingya minority are being respected.
Andrew W. Neal argues that while 'security' was once an anti-political 'exception' in liberal democracies - a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart of the state - it has now become normalised in professional political life. This represents a direct challenge to critical security studies debates and their core assumption that security is a kind of illiberal and undemocratic 'anti-politics'. Using archival research and interviews with politicians, Neal investigates security politics from the 1980s to the present day to show how its meaning and practice have changed over time. In doing so, he develops an original reassessment of the security/politics relationship.
