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There is a meeting happening this afternoon ... between the Iranian Central Bank, the United States Treasury and international banks based in London in an attempt to try to make some progress on this matter.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It isn't intended to be aggressive.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are doing things that could be misinterpreted, we judged that creating an opportunity through the NATO-Russia Council is the best way of avoiding Russia being able to say: 'we haven't been informed, we didn't know the details.'.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It looks like there could be four, maybe five battalions ... the point of these formations is to act as a trip wire, it isn't intended to be aggressive.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have offered assistance to the Egyptian authorities but so far we have not had any requests for support.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know that there's a British passport holder on board, who got onto the plane in Paris, we have offered assistance to the Egyptian authorities but so far we have not had any requests for support.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I hope that as the militia groups come inside the tent ... and cooperate with the government, it will be possible for us and our partners to support a military training programme in the future, i'm confident that if the conditions are right for that training programme to take place in Libya, or in a neighbouring country, that will be more successful than trying to do it in Europe.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are delighted by the way the UK support is being translated into strengthened border security and is enabling the armed forces to take the fight to Daesh and keep Lebanon safe from the incursions of Daesh.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Lebanon is an important part of the front line against terrorism, we are delighted by the way the UK support is being translated into strengthened border security and is enabling the armed forces to take the fight to Daesh and keep Lebanon safe from the incursions of Daesh.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unfortunately, what we've seen over the last couple of months, is an increase in violations of the ceasefire.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We must not forget that this was an incursion into the sovereign territory of Ukraine, Russia annexed Crimea illegally in international law, of course, reforms and steps are needed on the Ukrainian side as well. But we should never equate the two. Russia is the aggressor in this conflict.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If Russia wants the sanctions lifted, then its course of actions is very clear. It has to comply completely with its obligations under the Minsk agreements, unfortunately, what we've seen over the last couple of months, is an increase in violations of the ceasefire.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've gone backwards over the last few months with more and more violations of the ceasefire.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We've seen before, in Ukraine, Russia talking about a withdrawal, and then it turned out to be merely a rotation of forces.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The unexplained disappearance of five individuals associated with a Hong Kong bookstore and publishing house has raised questions in Hong Kong.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If implemented fully and properly... this( deal) will be an important step toward relieving the killing and suffering in Syria, a Western diplomatic source said.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I strongly condemn North Korea's ballistic missile technology test. This is a clear and deliberate violation of a number of U.N. Security Council Resolutions. North Korea's actions continue to present a threat to regional and international security, the U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed to take significant measures against any further launches or nuclear tests. We will now meet with our partners in New York to agree a collective response.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Is Russia really committed to a peace process or is it using the peace process as a fig leaf to try to deliver some kind of military victory for Assad that creates an Alawite mini state in the northwest of Syria?
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Russians say let's talk, and then they talk and they talk and they talk. The problem with the Russians is while they are talking they are bombing, and they are supporting Assad.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It may be that the document is so good that we say: 'Yes brilliant'. But I rather doubt it, i suspect that the document will be the basis of further work that we need to do in the run up to the Council. But we will see.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Less than 30 per cent of Russian strikes are against Daesh targets.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Since the Russian intervention in Syria, the dribble of people who were perhaps going back from these camps to Syria has stopped dead, and there is a new flow coming in because of the actions The Russians are taking - particularly in southern Syria along the border just a few kilometers from here.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Russians say let's talk, and then they talk and they talk and they talk. The problem with The Russians is while they are talking they are bombing, and they are supporting Assad.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Russians say they want to destroy Daesh but they are not bombing Daesh : they are bombing the moderate opposition, less than 30 per cent of Russian strikes are against Daesh targets.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The Russians's a source of constant grief to me that everything we are doing is being undermined by The Russians, the Russians say let's talk, and then they talk and they talk and they talk. The problem with The Russians is while they are talking they are bombing, and they are supporting Assad.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's an essential part of the settlement in Hong Kong that it has its own judicial system and it is solely responsible for trying offences that occur in Hong Kong.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It would not be acceptable for someone to be spirited out of Hong Kong in order to face charges in a different jurisdiction.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We do not believe that it is going to be possible to bring the opposition groups into the political process and have an effective ceasefire unless we have a clear point at which President Assad will depart.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If this turns out to be a device planted by an ISIL operative or by somebody inspired by ISIL, then clearly we will have to look again at the level of security we expect to see in airports in areas where ISIL is active.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We hope by tomorrow (Friday) we will have in place short-term emergency measures that will provide us with the level of assurance we need to allow flights to go out from the UK empty and bring those people back to the UK.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If we ca n’t get the commitments we need from our European partners on things like Britain being outside the commitment to ever-closer union, if we ca n’t get these things then as the prime minister has said, we rule nothing out, that’s why the package will have to be a robust, substantial and irreversible package of change with proper binding legal force. Because if we try to put to the British people a package which is anything less, we will get a raspberry from them.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The thing we disagree on is the role of one single person, Bashar al-Assad, in this process, the Iranians take the view that for better or for worse without Assad there can not be a political process – he is the glue that holds much of Syria together.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is very clear pitch here not to wait until then, there are things that can't be done. Investments can't be made, items can't be imported or exported or whatever. But the business negotiation can start to take place well ahead of that.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Reopening the embassy is the logical next move - a key step in building confidence and trust between two great nations.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This embassy and this special compound is a very special place: Since Britain acquired it in 1869, it has witnessed great moments both in the history of Iran and of Britain.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
So long as there are large numbers of pretty desperate migrants marauding around the area there will always be a threat to the tunnel's security.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
That is not a sustainable situation because Europe can't protect itself and preserve its standard of living and social infrastructure, if it has to absorb millions of migrants from Africa.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We have got to be able to resolve this problem ultimately by being able to return those who are not entitled to claim asylum back to their countries of origin, that's our number one priority.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We will be back here tomorrow night and we are looking forward to making some solid progress on Thursday when we reconvene.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The work goes on. You are going to see ministers coming and going to maintain the momentum of these discussions. I don't think we're at any kind of breakthrough moment yet and we will do whatever we need to do to keep the momentum.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There a number of different areas where we still have major differences of interpretation in detailing what was agreed in (the) Lausanne (framework agreement).
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There is going to have to be some give or take if we are to get this done in the next few days, no deal is better than a bad deal.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
So I think the serious negotiations are now getting under way and over the next week or so I hope we will start to see some real progress.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There will need to be some more flexibility shown by our Iranian partners if we are going to reach a deal, but, look, this is a negotiation, we always expected it would go right to the line and maybe beyond the line, so I think the serious negotiations are now getting under way and over the next week or so I hope we will start to see some real progress.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
As to the specific allegations this morning, we never comment on operational intelligence matters so I'm not going to talk about what we have or haven't done in order to mitigate the effect of the Edward Snowden revelations, but nobody should be in any doubt that Edward Snowden has caused immense damage.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We would offer our support to any country that has been chosen to host the World Cup.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We've asked the president, when he's ready, to let us have a shopping list of the support that he wants.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If our partners do not agree with us, do not work with us to deliver that (reform) package, then we rule nothing out.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
What matters is getting it right rather than doing it quickly, we're certainly not going to trade substantive reform just for getting it done quickly.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The advice we're getting is that we will need Treaty change.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If our partners do not agree with us, do not work with us to deliver that package then we rule nothing out, the advice we're getting is that we will need Treaty change.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
This video footage exposes Assad's lies on barrel bombs. It shows the casual and indiscriminate way in which Syrian regime forces are dropping these horrific weapons out of helicopters onto civilians below, we will bring those involved in these criminal acts to justice and will continue to help those caught in attacks by continuing our support of rescue teams working on the ground.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We currently believe that three British people have been killed in this tragedy but we can't rule out the possibility there are further British people involved, the level of information on the flight manifest doesn't allow us to rule out that possibility.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are areas where we've made progress, areas where we have yet to make any progress.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are legacy cases that are going to have be dealt with in courts.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I've had a very clear indication from Mr Jaitley...who is clear and categoric that this government will not be issuing any further notices under the retrospective tax legislation.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The tax demand made to Cairn was very unwelcome, i've had a very clear indication from Mr Jaitley...who is clear and categoric that this government will not be issuing any further notices under the retrospective tax legislation.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There has been a reduction in violence since the new agreement was signed but I don't detect that Mr Putin's strategic intentions have changed, this is just a question now about what tools he uses to achieve those objectives.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Of course they (the Germans) want to explore the opportunity that tomorrow's meeting, if it goes ahead, may offer.
– British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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