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Nirj Deva MEP on BBC Sunday Politics South East: A Brexit Party vote is a wasted vote!

20th May 2019

Nirj Deva MEP on BBC Sunday Politics South East: A Brexit Party vote is a wasted vote!

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For over a decade I campaigned to give you a referendum on our membership of the EU. That referendum was delivered, voted on, and decided. The people voted to leave. That is the will of the people, the will of our party, and the will of myself and my fellow Conservative candidates. But now,

20th April 2018

Nirj Deva MEP Press Conference: Prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula

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Strasbourg, 18 April 2018 – A unique opportunity exists to take the first steps towards a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. President Trump’s decision to accept Kim’s invitation to talks, without preconditions, is an unprecedented act of diplomacy. These talks are a

18th April 2018

Nirj Deva: North Korea may be ready to accept a nuclear freeze

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A unique opportunity exists to take the first steps towards lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula, according to the Conservative MEP involved in behind-the-scenes talks. Nirj Deva, Chairman of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula, believes North

17th April 2018

Labour – Osamor is Talking Nonsense – It Must Be Prince Charles

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17/04/2018 – Speaking in Strasbourg, at the European Parliament, senior MEP, Nirj Deva responded to Kate Osamor MP´s assertion (Times 13th April), that Prince Charles should not succeed HM The Queen as Head of the Commonwealth,” as preposterous. The Labour Shadow Development Secretary

23rd November 2017

We can’t end poverty without the private sector

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Ahead of the EU-Africa Summit next week ECR MEPs have called today for the private sector to take a leading role in the EU’s development policy. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals face a funding gap of $2.5 trillion despite the $1.4 trillion already spent globally on foreign aid. The ECR

30th October 2017

NIRJ DEVA MEP RECEIVES GG2 EDITOR’S AWARD

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Senior ECR MEP Nirj Deva has received the GG2 Editor’s Award for his outstanding contribution to British and ethnic minority communities in his 25 years of public service. Mr Deva was presented the award last night at the GG2 Leadership Awards an annual event that aims to highlight and showcase

13th September 2017

Optimistic diplomacy’ is needed to solve Korean crisis

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Conservative MEP Nirj Deva is calling on the international community to use “optimistic diplomacy” to defuse tensions in the Korean Peninsula. Speaking in the European Parliament today Mr Deva, who has met all sides in the current crisis over the past three years, said:

13th September 2017

Nirj Deva MEP calls for Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked from Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi

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In the wake of an increased spate of violent persecution against the Rohingya community at the hands of the Burmese military, Nirj Deva MEP, vice-chair of the European Parliament’s International Development Committee, called for de facto Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of her

21st July 2017

EU budget plan increases burden on struggling taxpayers

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A call for Member States to contribute an extra €2.44 billion to next year’s EU budget ignores the potential for tapping into private capital, MEPs have heard. Conservative Development spokesman Nirj Deva MEP told the European Parliament today that the proposal followed the traditional

11th July 2017

Seoul statement on Launching the Asia Europe Political Forum (AEPF)

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The 1st Meeting of the Asia Europe Political Forum (Seoul, July 9, 2017) Among several Resolutions passed by the ICAPP Standing Committee at the Asia Europe Political Forum the following was unanimously passed giving the European Parliament Delegation on the Korean Peninsula and its Chairman,

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Nirj Deva MEP on BBC Sunday Politics South East: A Brexit Party vote is a wasted vote!