23/01/2024 | 20:18:01 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2)In 2005 Israel gave Gaza to the Palestinians in the land for peace arrangement. They left businesses, fertile land and opportunity for the Palestinian people to self govern and build a society. They elected Hamas. The businesses were destroyed and the international community has sent billions in aid to try and support Palestinian civilians since. Sadly much of that aid has been spent building an infrastructure for war. For the last nineteen... 26/01/2023 | 19:20:44 I'm deeply saddened to hear that hundreds of people have died in and around Nagorno-Karabakh in recent months, and that the situation there is degrading further. I understand that the origins of the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia in this region can be traced back almost a century, rekindled by the fall of the Soviet Union and boiling over into two terrible wars in the last 30 years. But what have these wars achieved? They've not yielded anything like a permanent settlement or a...