NICHOLAS SOAMES'S ORAL QUESTION TO THE FOREIGN SECRETARY FOLLOWING HIS STATEMENT ON UKRAINE
Please find below Nicholas Soames’s question to the Foreign Secretary following his statement to the House of Commons on Ukraine on Monday, 28th April, 2014:
Nicholas Soames (Mid Sussex) (Con): Does my right hon. Friend believe that NATO has adequately asserted its willingness to defend itself and its allies, and will he also remind the House that we have much business to do with the Russians, not least in Syria and Iran?
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr William Hague): My right hon. Friend makes the point that I made in my previous answer. We continue to work with Russia on the Iranian nuclear negotiations and many African issues. We also try to work with Russia on Syria, although we have not succeeded in agreeing a common approach on that particular subject. He may be assured that we will maintain those efforts in the coming weeks.