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We probably all want to see effective peace and stability, although we may disagree across the chamber about how that can best be achieved.As far as we are concerned, future withdrawal of troops must depend on conditions on the ground.
I was not due to speak in the debate but, possibly in the best emerging traditions of the Parliament, I stayed behind after the vote and became drawn into the subject.
We are the committee that receives official reports from the Commissioner for Public Appointments in Scotland, so we would want to show an interest in anything that affected her work. We are probably best to wait until the order is laid and take it from there.
It will be for a review to decide which option is the best way forward. I am a devolutionist: I want Scotland to control its own affairs and I want there to be full devolution of the system.