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		Press Releases - 2006 2008 2007 2005 2004 2003 2002 New constitution not needed for further enlargement - 14th December 2006 Faced with the welcome admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the EU in January, Conservative Foreign Affairs spokesman, Charles Tannock MEP, today warned against linking further enlargement with the EU Constitution. Blair must demand that EU Ambassadors leave Iran - 14th December 2006 Today the Conservative leader in the European Parliament, Timothy Kirkhope MEP, demanded that the Prime Minister makes a stand against the Iranian regime by urging EU partners to withdraw their ambassadors to Iran for consultations at home in protest at the Neo-Nazi Summit held in Tehran on the 11th and 12th December. Bangladesh under threat from Islamic extremists - 16th November 2006 In a speech today in the European Parliament, Dr Charles Tannock MEP, warned that the secular state of Bangladesh is under threat from Islamic fundamentalism and that the UK and EU have a duty to keep up the pressure for reform and full respect for democracy, a free press and human rights for all of Bangladesh's citizens prior to the Elections scheduled next January. Gaza deaths: Still waiting for the Palestinian apology - 15th November 2006 Conservatives note Israel's apology for the 19 Beit Hanun deaths and await an apology from the new Palestinian national unity government (which includes Hamas) for the death of the innocent Israeli woman today in Sderot It is time to change Middle East strategy and do a deal with Syria - 25th October 2006 With President Bush contemplating a new Iraq strategy, Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, believes the key to improving peace prospects in both Iraq and the broader Middle East is to engage with the secular state of Syria. Conservatives angry at Pakistan link with North Korea nuke - 11th October 2006 Today in a speech at the European Parliament, Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, warned that Monday's nuclear test posed two uncomfortable situations that world leaders must now confront. Conservatives want simplified treaty not new constitution - 28th September 2006 By closing the door on more enlargement, Commission President Barroso has reopened the question of bringing the constitution in through the back door. Conservatives are ready for the new battle. Conservatives call for EU-India free trade pact - 27th September 2006 Strasbourg, 27 September 2006 -- Today Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, fleshed out David Cameron's vision on relations with India by calling for a free trade pact between the two biggest democracies in the world. Conservatives call for Kashmir ceasefire - 13th September 2006 Pakistan is showing real flexibility now on Kashmir with the current talks between the Indian and Pakistani governments aimed at easing Line of Control border tensions remaining the best strategy to achieve a just and enduring peace in the region. Musharraf scolded for "putting British troops in danger" in Afghanistan - 12th September 2006 Conservatives have criticised President Musharraf for putting the British troops in Afghanistan in danger by failing to be tough enough on Islamic extremists based in Pakistan. Lebanon aid money could be pocketed by Hezbollah - 8th September 2006 Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative Foreign Affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, has warned the European Commission that Hezbollah will get a cash windfall if EU aid is distributed negligently. "Don't be seduced by China", says Conservative MEP - 8th September 2006 The European Union must trade with China - but not aid the regime's appalling human rights record - so decided the European Parliament last night in a landmark vote. Now is surely the time for Hezbollah to be banned by the EU - 18th July 2006 Dr Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative Foreign Affairs spokesman, has demanded that the European Union finally list Hezbollah as a terrorist organisation. EU must ban Iranian President Ahmadinejad from World Cup 2006 in Germany - 1st June 2006 "The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not welcome in Europe for the World Cup," says Charles Tannock MEP, a co-author of an open letter to the European governments and FIFA, signed by 75 MEPs so far. Colombia bucks Bolivarian trend with election of pro-US President Uribe - 31st May 2006 On an official visit to Colombia, Conservative Foreign Affairs spokesman, Dr Charles Tannock MEP, welcomed the re-election of conservative President Uribe on Sunday as a slap in the face both to FARC, the drug dealing terrorists, and the irresponsible populism of neighbouring Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. MEPs call for ban on products produced in Chinese labour camps - 10th May 2006 Almost all EU member states import, sometimes unknowingly, sizeable quantities of goods produced by forced labour in the Chinese Laogai camps. The Laogai/Laojiao System was invented by the Chinese Communist Party and means 'Education by Labour'. Israel has a right to defend itself - 24th April 2006 Colourful assertions from some left-wing MEPs must not soften the European Union's stance on the unreformed Hamas-led government of Palestine, Dr Charles Tannock MEP, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament, said today. EP calls for action to protect ancient Assyrian community in Iraq - 6th April 2006 The European Parliament is calling on the Iraqi authorities and the multi-national forces stationed there to provide better protection for the country's ancient indigenous Christian Assyrian community, who are being hounded out of their native land by repeated acts of aggression as outrageous as throwing acid in the faces of women who refuse to wear veils and murdering women who wear blue jeans. Palestinian leader curtails visit to Strasbourg but questions won't go away - 15th March 2006 The curtailed visit of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the European Parliament in Strasbourg deprives MEPs of the chance to ask him why he has failed to stop rampant corruption and rein in terrorists including his own Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigade Martyrs, Charles Tannock MEP said today. Give dispossessed Poles back their land, say British MEPs - 9th March 2006 BRUSSELS, 9 March 2006 -- Land confiscated from Polish émigrés by the country's former communist regime after World War Two should be given back to them without delay, British Conservative MEP Charles Tannock said today. Belarus: MEPs denounce Lukashenko ahead of elections - 15th February 2006 MEPs today backed a resolution highly critical of the autocratic president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko - a man dubbed 'the last dictator in Europe' - and lamented the deteriorating political situation in the country. Government's confusion on Iran is weakening the West's response - 15th February 2006 Conflicting messages from the UK prime minister and foreign secretary on Iran are threatening to undermine the growing international consensus against the rogue state, Charles Tannock MEP said today as the European Parliament looked set to throw its weight behind measures to step up the pressure on the Ahmedinejad regime. Failure to tackle Palestinian corruption comes back to bite the EU - 2nd February 2006 The EU only has itself to blame for the dilemma it now faces following the election of Hamas because it turned a blind eye to the wanton plunder of EU aid money under Yasser Arafat and Fatah, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in Brussels Charles Tannock said today. European Parliament sends strong message to Hezbollah - 20th January 2006 Members of the European Parliament last week overwhelmingly backed a call by UK Conservative Charles Tannock for Hezbollah's disarmament under the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1559 - despite an intensive round of lobbying by Lebanese Hezbollah MPs. EU's relationship with neighbouring states must be based on democracy, prosperity and security - 19th January 2006 MEPs today backed a UK Conservative MEP's report which seeks to strengthen the EU's relationship with countries on the bloc's periphery. Dr Charles Tannock, Conservative foreign affairs spokesman, said the approval of his report on the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) was an important signal to European countries like Ukraine and Moldova that the long-term prospect of EU membership was open to them. Concern over action against humanitarian NGO in Caucasus - 19th January 2006 Conservative foreign affairs spokesman in the European Parliament Charles Tannock MEP welcomed a resolution passed by MEPs today critical of Russia's growing hostility to humanitarian aid organisations, particularly those working in the conflict zones of the Caucasus. Resolution of the Russia-Ukraine gas supply crisis welcomed, but leaves some questions unanswered - 4th January 2006 Mr. Marek SIWIEC (Poland - PSE), Co-Chairman of the European Parliament delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, calls for an urgency meeting of the European Parliament delegation to the EU-Ukraine PCC, to take place on 11 January in Brussels