'Interventionist': David Cameron with Barack Obama in New York
10 April 2012
David Cameron hailed a foreign policy of "smart interventionism" today as he urged the United Nations to take on tyrants opposing reform.
The Prime Minister said the success of acting alongside the Libyan uprising to overthrow Colonel Gaddafi and supporting the Arab spring showed the UN a "new way of working".
In a speech at UN headquarters in New York, he said the push for democracy in north Africa and the Middle East was a "massive opportunity" to spread peace and security "if we really seize it". He called for bolder action on Syria and Yemen.
The speech will be compared to the "ethical foreign policy" outlined by Robin Cook in the early days of the Labour government in 1997.
