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» Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Britain in the World

Asked why Iraq was number four in the list of achievements behind things like the Gleneagles Summit, Africa, poverty, Bosnia and Sierra Leone, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that it was not a question of putting achievements in a ranking order, just as it is not a foreign policy that says that you can take out one element and say that it is more important than another. In the combination of hard power and soft power you have to respond to the reality of the world out there. The reality of the world out there is that you do have to address the question of Africa and climate change, just as we did at Gleneagles and since just as you have to address the question of terrorism, as we are doing in Afghanistan and in Iraq. They are different pressures, different demands but it does not mean that it is either or, or a ranking system. It is simply that they are different elements of how you respond to an international situation.

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