Robin Cook

The Right Honourable Robert Finlayson Cook usually called Robin Cook (February 28, 1946, Bellshill – August 6, 2005, Inverness), was a politician in the British Labour Party. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2001. He resigned from his post as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council on March 17, 2003 while protesting the 2003 invasion of Iraq. At the time of his death he was president of the Foreign Policy Centre and a vice-president on the America APPG and the Global Security and Non-Proliferation APPG.

External links

• Robin Cook's personal website
• Guardian Unlimited Politics — Special Report: Robin Cook (1946 - 2005)
• TheyWorkForYou.com — Robin Cook MP
• NNDB — Robin Cook
• Cook's "ethical foreign policy" speech, 12 May 1997
• Cook's resignation statement in the House, 17 March 2003

Articles

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• "Obituary: Robin Cook" from BBC News
• "Obituary: Robin Cook" from The Guardian
• Cook resigns from cabinet over Iraq, Matthew Tempest, The Guardian, 17 March 2003
• "The sacrifice", Kamal Ahmed, The Observer, June 10 2001
• "Worse than irrelevant", Robin Cook's last article, The Guardian, 29 July 2005