Japanese Tied Aid And Whaling (EDM181)

Japanese Tied Aid And Whaling

EDM number 181 in 2001-02, proposed by Tony Banks on 18/07/2001.

That this House condemns without reservation the admission by the head of Japan's Fisheries Agency, Mr Maseyuku Komatsu, that Japan has been providing overseas aid in exchange for votes on the International Whaling Commission in order to secure a return to commercial whaling; believes that such practices are a corruption of process and should disqualify any countries in receipt of such tied aid from voting in the IWC; calls upon Her Majesty's Government to cease any aid provided to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia and the Grenadines all of whom have sold their votes to the Japanese; draws attention to the statement made by Mr Komatsu in Australia that 'the minke whale is a cockroach in the ocean'; and believes such comments reveal the venal, arrogant and ethnocentric attitude of the Japanese towards both world opinion and the exploitation of animal resources.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Tony Banks	18/07/2001	West Ham	Labour	Proposed
Lindsay Hoyle	18/07/2001	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Mark Tami	19/07/2001	Alyn & Deeside	Labour	Signed
Gerry Steinberg	19/07/2001	Durham, City of	Labour	Signed
Adrian Bailey	19/07/2001	West Bromwich West	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Mike Hancock	19/07/2001	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Win Griffiths	19/07/2001	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	19/07/2001	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	19/07/2001	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	19/07/2001	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	19/07/2001	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Dismore	19/07/2001	Hendon	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	19/07/2001	Easington	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	19/07/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	19/07/2001	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	19/07/2001	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	19/07/2001	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Bob Russell	19/07/2001	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Etherington	19/07/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Paul Marsden	20/07/2001	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Labour	Signed
John Austin	20/07/2001	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	20/07/2001	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	14/09/2001	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Norman Baker	14/09/2001	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Barrett	17/10/2001	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eric Illsley	24/10/2001	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	25/10/2001	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Williams	30/10/2001	Swansea West	Labour	Signed
Brian White	31/10/2001	North East Milton Keynes	Labour	Signed
Sandra Gidley	01/11/2001	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Battle	01/11/2001	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Colin Pickthall	02/11/2001	West Lancashire	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	08/11/2001	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Bill Tynan	12/11/2001	Hamilton South	Labour	Signed
Terry Davis	11/12/2001	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Labour	Signed
Julie Morgan	18/12/2001	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed

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