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Foreign Affairs Committee Annual Report 2003 House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Foreign Affairs Committee Annual Report 2003 First Report of Session 2003–04 HC 220 House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Foreign Affairs Committee Annual Report 2003 First Report of Session 2003–04 Report, together with formal minutes and Appendix Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed 15 January 2004 HC 220 Published on 22 January 2004 by authority of the House of Commons London: The Stationery Office Limited £0.00 The Foreign Affairs Committee The Foreign Affairs Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration, and policy of the Office of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its associated public bodies. Current membership Rt Hon Donald Anderson MP (Labour, Swansea East) (Chairman) David Chidgey MP (Liberal Democrat, Eastleigh) Fabian Hamilton MP (Labour, Leeds North East) Eric Illsley MP (Labour, Barnsley Central) Andrew Mackinlay MP (Labour, Thurrock) John Maples MP (Conservative, Stratford-on-Avon) Bill Olner MP (Labour, Nuneaton) Richard Ottaway (Conservative, Croydon South) Greg Pope MP (Labour, Hyndburn) Rt Hon Sir John Stanley MP (Conservative, Tonbridge and Malling) Gisela Stuart MP (Labour, Birmingham Edgbaston) The following Member was also a member of the Committee during the Parliament. Sir Patrick Cormack MP (Conservative, Staffordshire South) Powers The Committee is one of the departmental select committees, the powers of which are set out in House of Commons Standing Orders, principally in SO No 152. These are available on the Internet via www.parliament.uk. Publications The Reports and evidence of the Committee are published by The Stationery Office by Order of the House. All publications of the Committee (including press notices) are on the Internet at www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/foreign_affairs_committee.cfm. A list of Reports of the Committee in the present Parliament is in the inside front cover of this volume. Committee staff The current staff of the Committee are Steve Priestley (Clerk), Geoffrey Farrar (Second Clerk), Ann Snow (Committee Specialist), Kit Dawnay (Committee Specialist), Kevin Candy (Committee Assistant) and Julia Kalogerides (Secretary) Contacts All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerks of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Committee Office, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA. The telephone numbers for general enquiries are 020 7219 6106/6105/6394; the Committee’s email address is [email protected]. 1 Contents Report Page Introduction 3 Continuing scrutiny of foreign policy 4 Tenth Report of Session 2002-03, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism (HC 405) 4 Evidence on the Greek European Council (HC 774) 5 Evidence on the Inter-Governmental Conference (HC 606) 5 Seventh Report of Session 2002-03, Strategic Export Controls (HC 474) 6 Scrutiny of specific foreign policy issues 6 Eighth Report of Session 2002-03, Zimbabwe (HC 399) 7 Eleventh Report of Session 2002-03, Gibraltar (HC 1024) 7 Ninth Report of Session 2002-03, The Decision to go to War in Iraq (HC 813) 8 Scrutiny of Foreign & Commonwealth Office publications 9 Twelfth Report of Session 2002-03, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2003 (HC 859) 9 Fourth Report of Session 2002-03, Human Rights Annual Report 2002 (HC 257) 10 Pre-legislative foreign policy scrutiny 10 Fifth Report of Session 2002-03, The Biological Weapons Green Paper (HC 671) 11 Sixth Report of Session 2002-03, The Government’s Proposals for Secondary Legislation under the Export Control Act (HC 620) 11 Other scrutiny activities 12 Financial scrutiny 12 Scrutiny of the Foreign Office’s associated public bodies 13 Scrutiny of major appointments 13 Departmental response 13 Assisting the House 14 The future 14 Annex 1 15 Informal Meetings held by the Foreign Affairs Committee in 2003 15 Session 2002–03 15 Session 2003–04 19 Annex 2 20 Oral evidence sessions 20 Session 2001–02 20 Session 2002–03 23 Session 2003–04 26 2 Appendix 27 Correspondence between the Chairman of the Committee and the Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 27 Formal minutes 30 3 Introduction 1. In this Report, the Committee seeks to account for its work on behalf of Parliament during the calendar year 2003. The Committee’s role, set out in the Standing Order under which it is appointed, is to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and its associated public bodies (the British Council; the BBC World Service; and the Wilton Park conference centre). We discharge that role by carrying out relevant inquiries; by receiving written evidence on those inquiries; by questioning Ministers, officials and outside bodies on their evidence; by visiting countries to see things on the ground for ourselves and to engage in direct discussions with their governments, legislatures and opinion-formers; and by drawing up and publishing a Report to the House, setting out our conclusions and recommendations. The Government responds to each of our conclusions and recommendations, usually within two months of a Report being made, and some Reports are debated in the House.1 2. As well as undertaking its formal inquiries, the Committee held 62 informal meetings with visitors in 2003. Among those whom we met and with whom we exchanged views were the President of Pakistan, Mr Musharraf, the French Foreign Minister, M de Villepin, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Dr Kharrazi, the NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson, and a range of visiting ministers, parliamentarians and others from all parts of the globe, together with foreign ambassadors in London. We have also been able to meet a number of newly appointed United Kingdom Ambassadors and High Commissioners before they take up their posts, and those already en poste, and we have found this particularly useful. From time to time, the Committee as a whole, its Chairman or its Clerks meet representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), which enables us to be better informed on a range of issues which goes beyond our formal inquiries. A full list of our informal meetings in 2003 is at Annex 1. 3. As was the case last year, we have divided our Report into five main sections, which we believe most appropriately reflect the work we carried out in 2003: continuing scrutiny of foreign policy; scrutiny of specific foreign policy issues; scrutiny of Foreign and Commonwealth Office publications; pre-legislative foreign policy scrutiny; and other scrutiny activities. Later in the Report, we place our activity in the context of the work of the House in scrutinising the policies and actions of the executive; we comment on the response of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to our Reports; and we preview our future programme. Within that structure, we also seek to show how the Committee’s work relates to the ‘core tasks’ identified by our colleagues on the House’s Liaison Committee. 1 The Committee also examined the following publications, on which it has not reported to the House: British Council, British Council Annual Report 2002–03, 2003; BBC World Service, BBC World Service Annual Review 2002/03, 2003; DTI and FCO, British Trade International: Departmental Report 2003, Cm 5915, May 2003; FCO, Foreign & Commonwealth Office Business Plan 2003–06, April 2003; and FCO, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Resource Accounts 2001–02, HC 324, January 2003. 4 Continuing scrutiny of foreign policy 4. As noted above, the Standing Order of the House under which the Committee is appointed requires it to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the FCO and its associated public bodies. Each of these three areas of scrutiny is important, but in the case of a relatively small and low-spending department such as the FCO, it is the third which predominates. We continue, therefore, to regard the core of our work as being our ongoing scrutiny of the United Kingdom’s foreign policy. Tenth Report of Session 2002-03, Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism (HC 405) 5. We take the view that there is no more urgent or more important issue in foreign policy now than the war against terrorism. Our Report of July 2003 on Foreign Policy Aspects of the War against Terrorism2 was the third to bear that title since the events of September 2001, and our work on this inquiry continues. A fourth Report will be published in January 2004, and we intend that a fifth should follow in the summer. 6. It has been our intention in preparing and agreeing these Reports to produce a coherent body of work which assists Parliament, the executive and the public to identify the salient issues which are relevant to the war against terrorism, and the main questions which have to be answered. Some issues have been raised consistently in each of the Reports, while others have been the subject of a particular emphasis in one Report only. Our Report of July 2003 focused to a large extent on the build-up to war in Iraq at the UN and in other international organisations; on the situation in Iraq after the main conflict phase was over; and on developments in the campaign against international terrorist groups. In our forthcoming Report, we intend to follow up these questions, but also to provide a more thorough analysis of the political and security situation in the Middle East generally, which has such a bearing on the war against terrorism. 7. In September 2003, we visited Syria, Jordan, Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, in order to see the situation in the Middle East for ourselves and to meet some of those most involved in the affairs of the region. We held discussions with, among others, Syrian President Bashar Assad, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom. In the course of our very full programme, we visited Quneitra, the wrecked Syrian town on the cease-fire line with Israel; we went to Qalqilya, a Palestinian town now entirely surrounded by the new security barrier erected by Israel; and in Tel Aviv we met Israelis who, whether directly or indirectly, had been victims of violence.
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