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  • 27 Oct 2009 - - IISS Press Release - The IISS Announces 6th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue Manama Dialogue 2009The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) is pleased to announce that the 6th Regional Security Summit: The Manama Dialogue will take place from 11 to 13 December 2009 in Bahrain.
  • 26 Oct 2009 - - Reuters - British foreign minister tries to revive Blair candidacy for EU job The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" In a television interview on Sunday, in a speech on Monday and at a briefing with reporters in Luxembourg, Miliband set out his vision for a strong Europe that needs a leader like Blair.
  • 26 Oct 2009 - - BBC News - UK calls for EU muscle The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" The second job is the High Representative for Foreign Affairs. This is a kind of EU foreign minister with a diplomatic staff. Today David Miliband called for a more assertive European foreign policy. He said it was in the British interest. To be frightened of a more powerful European voice in the world was "blinkered, fatalistic and wrong". Britain, he said, should embrace it, shape it and lead it. Otherwise, he said, Britain's influence in the world would wane.
  • 26 Oct 2009 - - Politics.co.uk - Miliband presses EU credentials The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" In a speech to the International Institute of Strategic Studies on the EU's role as a global actor and the benefits to the UK of a strong foreign policy, Mr Miliband avoided directly referring to Mr Blair but said the presidency offered an opportunity to provide "continuity and consistency" in EU policy.
  • 26 Oct 2009 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Miliband warns EU over global role - backs Blair The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" In his speech to the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS) earlier, Miliband outlined his vision of a "strong Europe" once the Lisbon Treaty has been ratified by all members. He said the EU faced a stark choice between becoming a major global player or a "paper tiger" preoccupied with bureaucracy. "The choice for Europe is simple - get our act together and make the European Union a leader on the world stage or become spectators in a G2 world shaped by the US and China," sa
  • 26 Oct 2009 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Miliband: EU faces choice between progress or isolation The Rt Hon David Miliband, MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs addresses the IISS on "EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon" His warning came in a keynote address to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, entitled EU Foreign Policy After Lisbon. Miliband pleaded for a strategic long-term relationship between the EU and China and said relations with Russia over trade and energy supplies had to be put on a "mature and predictable" footing.
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