Sentences with phrase «ethical foreign policy»

c) Those opposed to WW2 fell into one of three major groups: * The communists, which remained opposed until Hitler invaded Russia; * The isolationists, that believed that non-interference was the only ethical foreign policy; * The Christians, that believed that all war was immoral, unethical, unjust, and contrary to what Scripture teaches.

He dismissed the pressure to pursue an ethical foreign policy as the work of «influential minority elements among us that have some special interest» at heart and believed the American commitment to Israel was a strategic liability.

Speaking on what he described as an «ethical foreign policy» he said: «A Labour government will never undermine the duty we have to help developing nations build their economies, root out corruption and tax evasion, and lift people out of poverty.

It is for this reason that SPUC has launched The Mayisha Campaign (Mayisha meaning Life in Swahili) to raise awareness about maternal mortality, dispel the myths put about by abortion groups and lobby the Department for International Development to adopt an ethical foreign policy which respects the lives of both mothers and their babies.

Last week, the SNP's leader at Westminster, Angus Robertson, questioned Theresa May on Saudi arms sales and the Yemen conflict, asking her: «What will it take for the UK to adopt an ethical foreign policy when it comes to Yemen?»

The best tactic, therefore, would be to give leftie voters what the Lib Dems offer them - civil liberties and an ethical foreign policy - but without the nasty Thatcherite economic baggage the Tories are selling.

When Labour came to power in 1997 they expressed a desire to move these issues onto the agenda, with a Human Rights Act, a PM opposed to ID cards, and such things as an «Ethical foreign policy» to express a belief that the rights of others could be placed above our national interest.

At the time, it was part of a civil rights agenda being set by the then Labour opposition, which included such things as the Human Right Act, and a (failed) «Ethical Foreign Policy» and was in stark contrast to the authoritarian approach of the then Conservative Government; Michael Howard's support for ID cards and Ken Clarke using PII Cetificates in the Matrix Churchill case spring to mind.

His ideological bearings were sensible redistribution, an ethical foreign policy, constitutional change, investment in public services, and environmental protection.

When Mr Blair first came to power he promised to champion an ethical foreign policy, after what was seen as an inward looking and overly cautious approach followed by the Major government.

While public opinion has turned against the war in Iraq, there is still considerable support for an ethical foreign policy, the report claims, pointing to the Make Poverty History campaign as evidence of Britons» commitment to helping civilians around the world.

The UK's involvement in Iraq risks undermining its future efforts towards an ethical foreign policy and inflaming global insecurity, two critical reports have concluded.

The Liberal Democrats welcomed Oxfam's report as proof Iraq has undermined the UK's ability to fight human rights abuses and missed the opportunity for an ethical foreign policy.

Speaking outside the House of Lords, he said the British government's defence of this law «gives lie to their claim to have an ethical foreign policy on human rights» and was an example of «moral and ethical hypocrisy».

Although striking a marginally less bellicose tone than Tony Blair's «ethical foreign policy», he gave little indication of real substantive change and affirmed the UK's commitment to working with American and Europe.

«An «ethical foreign policy» has given way to a desire not to rock the boat of arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

In an echo of the «ethical foreign policy» of New Labour's first foreign secretary, Robin Cook, he added: «It is not in our character to have a foreign policy without a conscience: to be idle or uninterested while others starve or murder each other in their millions is not for us.»

However, it was inevitable that declaring the advent of an «ethical foreign policy» would invite constant efforts to find fault lines between rhetoric and reality, at the personal level as well as in his approach to issues.

An «ethical foreign policy» with a «War Powers Act» to allow MPs to properly scrutinise the Government, insisting the Iraq War was a mistake

Labour spoke of an «ethical foreign policy» when it was last in opposition, but then sent British troops to conflicts in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq during its 13 years in power.