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Faisal Islam @faisalislam
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Live on @skynews right now exclusive live half hour interview from the UN... @KayBurley interviews the Foreign Secretary @Jeremy_Hunt now
“No possibility of war” with Russia says Foreign Secretary but he did have a frank meeting with Lavrov here at the UN
“If Putin wants respect for Russia, this is the wrong way to do it” says the Foreign Secretary to @Kayburley at the UN
“Some of the people at the top of the Russian regime have accumulated huge amounts of wealth ...and we must not be complicit in this”, says Foreign Secretary @Jeremy_Hunt
Foreign Secretary says there other families in the same situation as Nazanin re Iran detention, but they don’t want to talk about it ... Hunt says “there will be consequences”
“It is unacceptable for the Iranian regime to punish people for trade decisions, diplomatic decisions, commercial decisions” after @kayburley puts its to Hunt that the IRanians did not like BA cancelling its Tehran flight on same day Nazanin temporarily let out
Kay: “What values do we share with Saudi Arabia?”
Hunt talks about security and intelligence sharing etc... FS says “we have big concerns about how the war is being prosecuted with Yemen.”
“When I go to China, Saudi, I raise these [human rights] issues... I fly the flag for British values... they aren’t just British values they are universal values” Hunt tells Kay
Kay - Do we share President Trump’s values?
Hunt - we share some of them... he points to the twitter spat he had re the NHS as Health Sec
Hunt re President Trump: “we want to be inside the tent... his best friend internationally” - praises risks taken re Korea
Kay - Chequers is dead
Hunt: “I don’t agree with that... negotiations require two parties to engage” ... Britain’s not going to keep coming back
“It was always going to be like this - need to look at the v practical proposals the PM has put on the table”
Hunt: “The PM stood up for Britain. They can see she has a bottom line.. when our backs against the wall we fight back ... “it will be a tragedy and take a generation” to repair an acrimonious Brexit split...
Hunt: “This is a country that knows its way how to fight its way out of difficult situations...”
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