» Friday, June 6, 2008

Ireland/DUP/Sinn Fein

Asked if the Taoiseach would be at the talks in No 10 today, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said no; there would be representatives of the Irish Government at Downing Street today but it was important to emphasise that the talks we were hosting today were between the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Fein. […]

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42 Days

Asked if the Prime Minister had any views on John Major’s remarks about 42 days and the "authoritarian" State, the PMS replied that the Prime Minister had set out the Government’s position on this in his Times article earlier this week. A lot had changed over the past ten years; the terror threat we faced […]

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Zimbabwe

Asked for an update on the situation in Zimbabwe and what we could do to assist non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that work there, the PMS said that we had seen the response this morning of the international aid community to the decision that had been taken by the Zimbabwe authorities, which would affect the 4 million […]

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Miscellaneous

Asked for the Prime Minister’s thoughts on reports about a renewed drive for a European army, the PMS said that the Prime Minister did not think there would be a European army. It was the UK Government’s position that NATO remained the cornerstone of European defence and this was explicitly spelt out in the Lisbon […]

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