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". – If I were in a more cynical mood I would say that you are slightly optimistic in saying that we are benefiting from the profits of the oil companies.
What I said about the principle of extra-territoriality is right. It is a real problem to legislate here for what is going on in another country. The real problem is that what is legal on paper or in practice in a country like the Sudan can be very different from what we would accept as being legal here. But that difference is part of the reality of our world. So I will stick to my warning against this Parliament following what the American Congress has done with the Cuba problem, seen from their point of view and the Helms-Burton Act, by imposing outside their own principles of jurisdiction. We can agree with them or not, but these principles were only decided on by them. That is the core of the problem.
Although the ethics of this discussion point in the direction that the honourable Member has expressed, the mechanics and the legislative aspects of evoking this principle are still something I would counsel against."@en1
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