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Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Tuesday Volume 495 30 June 2009 No. 102 HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICIAL REPORT PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (HANSARD) Tuesday 30 June 2009 £5·00 © Parliamentary Copyright House of Commons 2009 This publication may be reproduced under the terms of the Parliamentary Click-Use Licence, available online through the Office of Public Sector Information website at www.opsi.gov.uk/click-use/ Enquiries to the Office of Public Sector Information, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU; Tel: 0044 (0) 208876344; e-mail: [email protected] 145 30 JUNE 2009 146 which is obviously a good thing—are indeed real voters. House of Commons I understand that about 85 per cent. of people in Helmand province have been registered, and we are Tuesday 30 June 2009 confident that the appropriate procedures have been followed there. However, if the hon. Gentleman has any particular evidence that he wishes to supply to me, I The House met at half-past Two o’clock should be happy to have it. Iran PRAYERS 2. Mr. Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con): What is [MR.SPEAKER in the Chair] his most recent assessment of the political situation in Iran; and if he will make a statement. [282688] BUSINESS BEFORE QUESTIONS 7. Tom Brake (Carshalton and Wallington) (LD): What recent reports he has received on the political situation NEW WRIT in Iran; and if he will make a statement. [282693] Ordered, That the Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Crown to make out a new Writ for the electing of a Member to Affairs (David Miliband): It is for the Iranian people to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough Constituency of decide on their Government. The whole world has Norwich North in the room of Dr. Ian Gibson, who since his watched the post-election debate, demonstrations and election for the said Borough Constituency has accepted the violence against protesters with mounting concern. The Office of Steward or Bailiff of Her Majesty’s Three Chiltern grim effectiveness of the clampdown by the authorities Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham, in the county of Buckingham.—(Mr. Nicholas Brown.) has clearly not ended the debate inside Iran. We are extremely concerned about the continued detention of some of our locally engaged staff in Tehran. That constitutes unacceptable harassment and intimidation, Oral Answers to Questions as European Foreign Ministers made clear in their joint statement on Sunday. I have discussed the issue with Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki, and we agreed in our second telephone conversation yesterday that a swift FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE resolution was in both our interests. The Secretary of State was asked— Mr. Hollobone: Has it been possible to make an accurate assessment of the number of Iranian protesters Afghanistan who have been arrested and imprisoned, and have any British nationals been harassed or detained? 1. Mr. Adam Holloway (Gravesham) (Con): What David Miliband: It has not been possible for us to discussions he has had with the Afghan authorities on conduct an independent assessment of the total number the conduct of the forthcoming presidential election in of protesters who have been arrested, let alone the that country. [282687] number who have been intimidated. As for the hon. Gentleman’s question about British nationals, he will The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth know of the case of a dual-nationality Greek-British Affairs (David Miliband): I met the Afghan Foreign journalist who was detained for a time. The handling of Minister, Dr. Spanta, in Trieste on Friday. Our embassy his case is being led by the Greek authorities, and I in Kabul is in regular dialogue with the Afghan authorities, talked to Foreign Minister Bakoyannis about it at the particularly the Independent Election Commission of weekend. Obviously any detention or intimidation of Afghanistan, which is running the first Afghan-led elections journalists or diplomatic staff is to be deplored, which since the 1970s. We are also in close contact with the is why we are working so hard on the case that is United Nations Development Programme, which is currently at the top of our list of priorities: that of our co-ordinating the international effort to support the own locally engaged staff. election commission. In Helmand province we are working with the election commission, the governor and the Tom Brake: The European Union has said that there Afghan national security forces to ensure credible elections will be a “strong and collective response” if the issue of on 20 August. embassy staff is not sorted out. Can the Secretary of State tell us what the nature of that “strong and collective Mr. Holloway: What reports has the Foreign Secretary response” might be? received of fraudulent voter registration in the run-up to the elections, such as the mass registration of women David Miliband: No, because one of the features of a in Nuristan? strong and collective response is that we do not advertise its various aspects in advance. At this stage, it is important David Miliband: My attention has not been drawn to for the Government of Iran to recognise that the unanimous the example that the hon. Gentleman has given, but the view was first that the arrest of the nine staff constituted United Nations and other authorities have been as intimidation and harassment of an unacceptable kind, vigilant as possible in ensuring that the extra voters who secondly that it was imperative for the individuals concerned have been registered—4 million or so have been registered, to be released unharmed as soon as possible and able to 147 Oral Answers30 JUNE 2009 Oral Answers 148 go about their business, and thirdly that there would be Secretary reassure the House that beyond the reasonable a strong and collective response in respect of intimidation reaction to the unacceptable Iranian actions that we and harassment. have seen, Her Majesty’s Government will refuse to be It is important to understand that what is happening provoked by the supreme leader, President Ahmadinejad in Tehran and the wider country is not a bilateral and anyone else in the Iranian conservative leadership, dispute between Iran and Britain. There is a debate and instead recognise that silence, patience and restraint within Iran about how the people want to be governed, at such a time can be the most powerful of diplomatic but it is also the case that Iran seeks engagement with weapons? the wider international community.The wider international community is determined that that engagement should David Miliband: First, I am very grateful to the hon. take place on the basis of mutual respect, including Gentleman for the preliminary part of his remarks. I respect for all our staff. am not sure that I can sign up to “silence”, as that may be going a bit far in the conduct of foreign policy, but I Mike Gapes (Ilford, South) (Lab/Co-op): The Foreign certainly think we should be firm but not macho in the Secretary will be aware that the Foreign Affairs Committee way we go about it, and that is what I shall try to do. visited Iran two years ago, and we were greatly assisted in our visit by several locally engaged staff. Will he send Mr. William Hague (Richmond, Yorks) (Con): It is of a message, through whatever channels he has, to our course utterly unacceptable intimidation that Iran continues people in Iran that the FAC greatly appreciates the to detain four locally engaged staff from our embassy, work they have done for us and that our thoughts are and in making that clear the Foreign Secretary has the with them at this time? united support of the House. This transparent ruse by Iran to portray what is a crisis of the credibility of its David Miliband: I am grateful to my hon. Friend for own Government, using violence against their own his comments. It is important that so many Members people, as a dispute with the United Kingdom is totally now recognise that some 10,000 of the 16,000 Foreign unjustified and will deceive, and should deceive, no one. Office staff are locally engaged, increasingly in positions We also support the proportionate steps the Government connected with political reporting and economic analysis. have taken in response to this, and strongly welcome the The nine staff who were arrested on Saturday constitute supportive stance of the other EU Foreign Ministers. the locally employed element of our political and economic When the Foreign Secretary spoke yesterday to section in the embassy in Tehran. I am sure that my Mr. Mottaki, the Iranian Foreign Minister, did Mr. Mottaki hon. Friend’s thoughts and good wishes will be important repeat the assertion by the Iranian Foreign Ministry to them, but there is a more general principle here: these that there was no wish to damage or downgrade relations staff operate for diplomatic purposes, and they should with the United Kingdom, and if so, how did he square be given full respect for that role. that with the continued detention of four of our staff? Mr. Denis MacShane (Rotherham) (Lab): As the David Miliband: Foreign Minister Mottaki was clear Foreign Secretary correctly says, it is a matter for the that he wanted to raise the level of engagement not only people of Iran to choose their own Government, but it with this country but with other European countries. It is also a matter for the rest of the world that President is a matter of record that it is not the Ministry of Ahmadinejad exports anti-Semitism, exports fundamentalist Foreign Affairs in Tehran which goes around arresting terrorism, that he may, if he gets nuclear weapons, people, but I made it very clear, and Mr.
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