Mr Thomas said he would be holding an urgent meeting with Welsh Rural Affairs Minister Carwyn Jones.

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We ask Her Majesty's Government to take urgent action to bring this unhappy state of affairs to a satisfactory conclusion.

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Speaking in Parliament, Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the situation as "a completely unacceptable state of affairs" and called for an urgent investigation by Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA).

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For over two decades, every incoming U.S. administration has reviewed Arab-Israeli diplomatic options, concluded (on the advice of the State Department's Near East Affairs Bureau) that the problem requires urgent, high-level U.S. diplomatic attention, and devised a "plan, " invariably implying that Israel's continuing hold on the territories captured in 1967 is a - perhaps the - principal impediment to peace in the region.

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The debate was held following a summit on 8 December 2009 in Brussels by the EU's Foreign Affairs Council during which ministers adopted a resolution calling for an "urgent resumption" of peace talks in the Middle East.

BBC: European Parliament

Speaking on BBC current affairs programme The Wales Report, she said she wanted to see urgent action taken to vaccinate children over the next month, especially as the disease is more likely to spread as they return to school.

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There, a special committee will hold an "urgent meeting" on the subject Monday, said Mohammed Subeih, the Arab League's undersecretary for Palestinian affairs.

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"Those are side issues that ought to be put off for another day and not be allowed to deter us from completing our urgent mission: protecting the American people from terrorism at home, " said Lieberman, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee.

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