RT HON DES BROWNE MP, MR ANDREW MATHEWSON AND MR HUGH POWELL

8 JANUARY 2008

  Q340  Robert Key: Which state?

  Mr Mathewson: Cyprus has withheld consensus on that.

  Robert Key: I just wanted you to say it! I am grateful, Chairman, thank you.

  Q341  Chairman: Secretary of State, thank you very much indeed to you and your team for a long session. We did finish it within two hours which I was not sure we were going to be able to do. I am grateful to you. It is the final session, as I say, for our NATO inquiry and we will now proceed to try and produce a report, which will not be easy!

  Des Browne: I look forward to it.

  Q342  Chairman: And if we decide, as we may well, to take you up on your offer on detailed legal questions, we will let you know as soon as we can.

  Des Browne: Thank you very much. With respect, Chairman, it might be a better way to deal with these very detailed legal points than trying to rely upon what people believe they said and other people answered subsequently.

  Chairman: Yes, well, I do not even understand the questions let alone the answers!