No arms or defence equipment has been sent from this country to Iran since the Hostage Crisis arose in early November.

No arms or military equipment have been sold to Iran since the Hostage Crisis began in early November.

Mr. Bidwell: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what progress has been made to resolve the Hostage Crisis in the Lebanon.

With the benefit of seven weeks' hindsight, does the Foreign Secretary not agree that the Hostage Crisis and the safe areas crisis are part of a pattern of pressure from the Bosnian Serbs to bring about withdrawal?

Will the Minister assure the House, in view of the escalating danger in Chechnya, which has been worsened by the Hostage Crisis this week, that the Government will use every endeavour to urge restraint on both sides in the dispute to try to bring about a peaceful settlement?

Notwithstanding the summary given by the right hon. Gentleman on the basis of his experience as a junior Foreign Office Minister, Mr. Hood's evidence makes it clear that, at the time in question, my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary was dealing simultaneously with the Hostage Crisis in Yemen, with arrangements forthe Contact Group - he was trying to avert a war in the former Yugoslavia; Kosovo was also a problem - and with a number of other matters.

Noble Lords will remember the Hostage Crisis in Iran.

"Before concluding, I should like to update the House on the Hostage Crisis in Moscow that ended tragically with the loss of so many lives.

Before concluding, I would like to update the House on the Hostage Crisis in Moscow that ended tragically with the loss of so many lives.

Given the urgency of the Hostage Crisis and the significance of the role of the United States in the middle east, has the Prime Minister discussed the present situation with the President of the United States?

It would be a tragedy if that possibility of progress were derailed by the Hostage Crisis.

During the Hostage Crisis earlier this year, I was quite relieved that the bellicose language used against Iran up until that point was toned down a great deal.

Too many people stopped the tape when the Hostage Crisis finished in January 1981, and as the Islamic revolution entrenched and western opposition hardened, it became in the interests of too many people in the Us and Iran to maintain hostilities.

It has been reported that the National Security Committee discussed the Hostage Crisis on 20 separate occasions.

With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on the Hostage Crisis in Algeria and the tragic events of the past three days.

I was involved in the Hostage Crisis when Linda was kidnapped.

In Beslan the state used such force to resolve a Hostage Crisis that 334 of the hostages, including 186 children, were killed.

The first takes me back to the days of the Hostage Crisis in Beirut, in Lebanon, when I was privileged to lead the efforts on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury to gain the release of the hostages - British and Irish.