Tag: Britain

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Note: The tag Britain refers to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the "United Kingdom" or the "UK"), a sovereign state.

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2009-04 In London, Britain, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his USA counterpart Barack Obama met for the first time.
They agreed to negotiate a replacement for the START I by the end of the year.
2009-02-18 Russia's first-ever plant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) was inaugurated near Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Britain's Prince Andrew, Netherlands Economic Affairs Minister Maria van der Hoeven, and Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. The plant will process gas from the Sakhalin-2 extraction project, consisting of several offshore fields in the Sea of Okhotsk.
2008-11 The act is a civil measure, preventing parents and family members from forcing their children to marry against their will.
According to the act, any person involved in the "aiding, abetting, counseling, procuring, encouraging or assisting [of] another person to force, or to attempt to force, a person to enter into a marriage" or "conspiring to force, or to attempt to force, a person to enter into a marriage" will be held liable for their actions.
2008-07-20 in Britain, the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said ministers should no longer take at face value statements from senior politicians, including George Bush, that America does not resort to torture in the light of the CIA admitting it used 'waterboarding'.

The report said there were 'serious implications' of the striking inconsistencies between British ministers continuing to believe the Bush administration when it denies using torture. 'The UK can no longer rely on US assurances that it does not use torture, and we recommend that the government does not rely on such assurances in the future.'
'We also recommend that the government should immediately carry out an exhaustive analysis of current US interrogation techniques on the basis of such information as is publicly available or which can be supplied by the US.'
2008-07-11 In Brussels, Belgium a donor conference for Kosovo saw pledges of a total of 1.2 billion euro.
-- According to Pierre Mirel, European Commission director for Western Balkans

The EU and its member countries pledged a total of 800 million euro and the US 225 million euro. Germany pledged 100 million euro, the UK 28 million pounds sterling, Switzerland 47 million euro, Luxembourg 25.5 million euro, Italy 13 million euro, France 2.3 million euro, Slovenia 500 000 euro and Bulgaria 500 000 euro.

The George Soros Foundation pledged 500 000 euro in aid for the Roma community in Kosovo.
2008-07-08 The US Navy’s Fifth Fleet announced American, British and Bahraini vessels were to launch a new exercise in the Gulf called “Stake Net,” to practice tactics and procedures for protecting maritime infrastructure such as gas and oil installations.
2008-06-17 "So, the question is how - at one and the same time - we can ensure we give no quarter to terrorism and organized crime, while still advancing the liberties our society is founded upon…
The British way cannot be a head-in-the-sand approach that ignores the fact that the world has changed with the advent of terrorism, which aims for civilian casualties on a massive scale and which respects not only no law, but also no recognizable moral framework. Instead, it must be an approach that is prepared to make the difficult decisions to protect our security – not by ignoring the demands of liberty but always at the same time doing everything we can to protect the individual from unfair or arbitrary treatment."
-- Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Speech on Security and Liberty
2008-05 It was revealed that Mohamed had written to Gordon Brown, pleading with the prime minister to use his influence with the US president, George Bush, to stop a military court from sentencing him to death.
2008-02-20 Sharia is "rooted in the sense of doing God's will in the ordinary things of life".
-- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, public lecture in Cambridge, Britain
2008-02-20 "In some of the ways it [= sharia] has been codified and practised across the world, it has been appalling. In some of the ways it has been applied to women in places like Saudi Arabia, it is grim."
-- Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, public lecture in Cambridge, Britain

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