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responsible, did reconsider this last year and their leave was extended and they said at the time that they
Now would be again looked at when it comes up again. political asylum is a separate issue and one that is looked at on a case by case basis and if there is a case, then regardless of where they come from. they come from China, or they come from Vietnam or come from Turkey or a country outside the community then that is looked at on a case by case basis.
Whether
So the case for exceptional leave to remain that remains the same at the moment but is going to be reconsidered at the end of the year?
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Yes they have a period of exceptional leave to remain, when that comes to an end of course those cases will be
looked at again.
Q: China is selling huge firearms indiscriminately to the
Third World, the latest being the Middle East,
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especially in Syria. Is China becoming a new threat to world peace at all and what is the US and UK going to do about it?
There
This is a very important issue. If you are free this afternoon you can come and listen to me in the House of Lords where I am doing a debate on precisely this issue but you've probably got far better things to do. is a concern, undoubtedly, it was all brought to a head
That is by the Middle East conflict about arms sales. precisely why the Prime Minister launched the initiative that he did, that we should sit round a table and discuss this. These actions have got to be wider than the weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear weapons, chemical biological weapons and the ballistic missiles and it's got to go to conventional weapons. Americans have put forward a proposition that we should have an arms freeze on the Middle East and get this
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