Arms Sales

EDM number 1286 in 1990-91, proposed by Rupert Allason on 21/10/1991.

That this House expresses concern at the disclosure in Seymour Hersh's The Samson Option, published by Messrs Faber & Faber, that the Daily Mirror and its proprietor, Mr Robert Maxwell, have maintained a close relationship with the Israeli Intelligence Service, Mossad, and specifically, that in 1983 the Foreign Editor of the Daily Mirror, Mr Nicholas Davies, entered into a business partnership with an Israeli citizen, Mr Ari Ben-Menashe, and based a company incorporated as Ora Limited at 41 Becmead Avenue, London S.E.15, and 1 Trafalgar Avenue, London S.W.16, that the company negotiated the sale of 4,000 TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran in contravention of the United Nations arms embargo then in force in 1987 and allegedly conspired in September 1986 to supply information regarding the whereabouts in London of Mr Mordechai Vanunu to the Israeli Embassy; calls on the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to initiate inquiries to establish whether the United Nations embargo on the export of weapons to the belligerents was breached; and calls on the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to suspend the access to confidential Foreign and Commonwealth Office briefings of Mirror Group personnel until an investigation by the appropriate authorities has been completed.

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