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Express Newspaper is published on World Wide Web daily.
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In Britain,
Lib Dem elects new leader
Nick Clegg
In Britain, 40 years old, Nick Clegg reportedly has won Lib Dem
Party's leadership race that was announced on Tuesday 18, December
2007.
Mr. Clegg an ex-journalist and former Euro MEP won 20,988 votes
to the 20,477 votes cast for Mr. Huhne by memebers, news reports
said.
Mr. Clegg is party's third leader in two years - Charles Kennedy
quit in January 2006 and Sir Menzies cambel resigned in October.
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Nick Clegg
New Lib Dem leader
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Britain's future Conservative PM Cameron while delivering
his major speech in London gives hints on national security
and foreign affairs
Report by Vallabh Kaviraj
in London
Britain's Tory leader David Cameron
while delivering his major speech
in London on Monday 11 September 2006.
Picture by Vallabh Kaviraj
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Britain's future Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron who
delivered his major speech on national security and foreign affairs
at the British American Project Annual JP Morgan Lecture to mark
the fifth anniversary of 9/11 in London on 11th September 2006,
gives hints on national security and US and UK foreign policy.
Mr. Cameron said"I know that if my party wins the next election,
the moment I walk through the front door of 10 Downing Street
I will have the huge responsibity of protecting the British public
from the terror threat. I will involve action to support and enhence
our security response. I will involve to make our society stronger
at home. And it will require firm action on the international
front. It is the international dimension that I'd like to focus
on today."
He said "today we remember the almost three thousand dead, killed
in the most callous and indiscriminate act of terrorism in modern
history. There is much we owe to their memories, and to find those
responsible for planning international terror, and to do everything
we can to stop further outrages. And above all, to make the world
safer for the future. Fighting terrorism is the most consuming
concern for the modern government."
Foreign policy
"It is important to take care when developing foreign policy in
Opposition. First, we are the Majesty's loyal Opposition - and
I take the part seriously, where possible, we should offer support
to the government so ministers can speak abroad with authority
of the whole country. And second, we should use the time and space
available to us seriously. Foreign policy-making should not be
narrow displine: we should bring a wide range of experts into
the process. William Hague has been developing our thinking in
a range of areas, with, for example, a new Conservative focus
on human rights. And I have established a Foreign Affairs Council
to access the advice of a wide range of senior former diplomats
and service personnel. It includes, for example, Charles Powell
and Charles Guthrie, as well as historians and former ministers,
and will help me formulate foreign policy for the next parliament"
said Mr. Cameron.
He added "I also believe that we should try to debate foreign
policy in a mature and responsible way. It is not responsible
to try and polarise debate through simplistic exercises in political
positioning.
If you question the approach of the US administration you are
"anti-American". If you support what the United States is doing,
you are "American poodle". If you care about civil liberties,
you are "soft on terror". If you back an extension of our security
laws, you are "backing a police state". These are not the mature
contributions to debate. Foreign policy decisions are not black
and white, something which the public well understands. We need
a sense of balance, judgement and proposition in handling the
complex and dangerous challenges of foreign and security policy
in the twenty-first century" said Mr. Cameron.
Remembering 9/11, he said that at lunch time on that day he was
working at home in his constituency in oxfordshire. When the news
came that America was under attack, first thing he thought about
was Sam his wife who was in Manhattan. She had flown there to
open a new store, one that she designed, he said it took several
hours to get through to her on the phone. Like so many others,
he watched those towers come crashing down, he said he used to
go for meetings there when he worked in business before becoming
an MP. Like everyone in room, he looked on with horror and wondered
what kind of world had dawned that morning. 9/11 was a wake up
call indeed, Mr. Cameron explained.
He said although with hindsight, the first attack on the World
Trade Centre in 1993, the horrific bombings of US embassies in
East Africa, and the assault on the USS cole should have waken
us up already.
But 9/11 alerted us all to a security threat on a new and unprecedented
scale...to a world of connections and complexity, conflating religion,
foreign policy, domestic security policy, even economic policy
in an unstable mix...and in world in which we urgently needed
new thinking to match these frightening new challenges, Mr. Cameron
said.
Mr. Cameron said" I am a liberal Conservative, rather than a neo-Conservative.
Liberal because I support the aim of spreading freedom and democracy,
and support humatarian intervention. Conservative - because I
recognise the complexities of human nature, and am sceptical of
grand schemes to remake the world.
A liberal Conservative approach to foreign policy today is based
on five propositions. First, that we should understand fully the
threat we face. Second, that democracy cannot quickly be imposed
from outside. Third, that our strategy to go far beyond military
action. Fourth, that we need a new multilateralism to tackle the
new global challenges we face. And fifth, we must strive to act
with moral authority.
In short, we must be wise as well as good. This is a struggle
which requires all our might and all our conviction. But it is
a long struggle, and it also requires our intelligence, our patience,
and our humanity.
I have set out today the principles according to which I would
conduct that struggle: passionate support for the Atlantic Allience
within rebalanced special relationship, retaining the strengths
of neo-conservative approach while learning from its failure and
basing our actions on a new approach to foreign affairs - liberal
conservatism, which I believe is right for our times and right
for the struggle we face, said Mr. Cameron.
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Britain to find ways
-how to tackle tensions
and extremism in
British society of today
Britain has launched today a Commission on Integration and Cohesion,
calling for a new and honest debate on diversity.
Reportedly the body which will start work next month will look
at how communities in England will tackle tensions and extremism
in the Multicultural British Society of today.
The launch of the Commission comes amid growing fears of alienation,
especially among young Muslims.
The Commission on Integration and Cohesion reportedly tour the
country before June and it will look at how towns, cities and
communities tackle challenges such as segregation and social or
economic divisions between different ethnic groups.
However, many observers have observed that the multiculturalism
has created more divisions and has broken the British multicultural
society into pieces, creating deep communal element in the Brritish
society of today.
Now-a-days, silent minorities within ethnic minorities are discriminated
locally and nationally and their voices are not heard.
Politicians look for their political gain rather than serving
all citizens equally and political games are played for vote gaining
purpose, say observers.
-The AENNS(24/08/06)
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