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Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [36]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Once.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [35]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
All right. Let us take the South America trip then and Caracas. Who was responsible for briefing him on that?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [34]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
But he has not met Mayor Bloomberg you have just told us.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [33]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
He has never met the Mayor of New York who has snubbed him. We have not gone into proper and full partnership agreements with Tokyo, even though we have signed a paper and you advised not to do it. Is it not true that it is not the interest of Londoners you wish to further, it is primarily the interests of the Mayor's political ideology you seek to further?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [32]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Not according to his report.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [31]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Ms Parchment, the question is not about your relationships with the rest of the world, but about the Mayor's.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [30]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
I see. Can you help me, finally, about this? Since the Mayor was invited to go by the Olympics Organisation, did they make any contribution to the cost of his visit, or why the costs were borne by the GLA?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [29]

  • Question by: Richard Barnes
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Do you? If ideological priorities do not guide the Mayor's international relations strategy, why has the Mayor overwhelmingly only met with city Mayors who are members of left wing communist parties in their countries?

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [28]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Perhaps you might do well to read it, Mr Ross, and see about the concern that the Labour Government, and Mrs [Margaret] Beckett [Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office], express about Cuba's one party nature and its appalling human rights record.

Strategy for GLA International Relations (Supplementary) [27]

  • Question by: Bob Neill
  • Meeting date: 14 March 2007
Did anybody advise him before he claimed that Cuba had a better human rights record and was not open to lectures by Britain or the United States on its human rights? Was he given any briefings as to what was appropriate to say?
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