Greg Barker: the lord's work
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The Us. Wanted to Go After Derapasca
Two months after sanctions, barker secured a meeting with the foreign office minister responsible for russia. Both men say that it was simply an update on barker's plan, which was within the rules. It took me a freedom of information request fought for almost a year to get the minutes of that meeting because someone, presumably barker or duncan, had filed a privacy complaint ot it. Thanks to these minutes, we can now see some of the arguments that barker was making behind closed doors to have sanctions lifted. In answer to the minister's question, lord barker could not offer any reason why the us wanted to go after derapasca.
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