As we have seen in the Recent Ukrainian Crisis, what we get is only what the Germans, the French and others are prepared to allow to pass.

May I put it to the Foreign Secretary that Brussels is partly to blame for This Ukrainian Crisis?

My Lords, I, too, thank my noble friend for setting out the Government's action so far on the Ukrainian Crisis.

The whole debate about the Ukrainian Crisis misses one essential point: it is not to do with strategic or even tactical interests; it is a direct challenge to international law.

The Us Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, urged NATO allies on3 June this year to raise their defence budgets due to the Ukrainian Crisis.

The only surprising thing about the Ukrainian Crisis was that the West was surprised.

The Ukrainian Crisis is a wake-up call for the west.

The report is also right to identify two evident policy failures in the run-up to the Ukrainian Crisis: first, the failure to be aware of Russian hostility to the association agreement referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Lamont; and, secondly, the crucial importance that Moscow attached to preventing Ukraine from joining NATO.

We have seen that in these few years of setting up the exhibition, during which we have had the Ukrainian Crisis, Crimea and friction over Syria.