25 Quotes by Emyr Parry

We're quite clear that's what we need to do if the African Union agrees, but the African Union must be brought to agree.

very actively on the management dossier and putting forward proposals and driving it.

There are some points not in the text that frankly we would have preferred to have seen in the text. Other colleagues said no, that would send a different message at this particular time.

We're looking now at a mix of different comments on basic texts. We've made a bit of progress but we have quite a lot more progress to make.

We had a very good meeting. We discussed the elements that France and the UK put down. These are now being referred to capitals and I expect we will have an early meeting later this week to see what the reactions are with a view to making progress on the text.

Nobody is going to be 100 percent satisfied with this text, but I think it is a basis for all of us to say our main interest is covered by it and that we recognize it reflects the best consensus we can come to now.

If that means that the AU decides that ... it wants to move this toward the UN, we are going to have to explore options like that.

is to show the intensity of the concern, and to make it very clear at the highest level what we expect.

We don't have a deal but we continued our discussions, we will continue them and we edged forward... but it's edging forward.