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Use Of Nuclear Weapons Against Iraq

EDM number 637 in 2002-03, proposed by Adam Price on 03/02/2003.

That this House calls on the Government to make a categorical undertaking that it will not use nuclear weapons against Iraq in the event of any military action; notes that states with nuclear weapons are legally bound, as stated by the International Court of Justice, not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapon states; further notes that the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence have failed to rule out the use of nuclear weapons during any conflict with Iraq; further notes that the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iraq has no nuclear weapons capability; further notes that in the 1998 Strategic Defence Review the Government restated its assurance from 1978 that 'we would not use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state'; further notes that at the start of the 1991 Gulf War the then Prime Minister, the Right honourable John Major stated, 'we would not use them (nuclear weapons)'; realises that current United Kingdom Government policy not only devalues the deterrent role of nuclear weapons but diminishes the United Kingdom contribution to arms control; supports the New Agenda Coalition's declaration demanding the speedy, final and total elimination of nuclear weapons; and calls on the New Agenda Coalition Governments of Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden to indict the United Kingdom Government for breaking international law.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Adam Price03/02/2003Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruProposed
Elfyn Llwyd03/02/2003Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Simon Thomas03/02/2003CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Hywel Williams03/02/2003CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Neil Gerrard04/02/2003WalthamstowLabourSigned
Tom Cox05/02/2003TootingLabourSigned
Harry Barnes05/02/2003North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Harold Best05/02/2003Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Sue Doughty06/02/2003GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chaytor06/02/2003Bury NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell06/02/2003Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Marsha Singh06/02/2003Bradford WestLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson07/02/2003Hampstead & HighgateLabourSigned
Rudi Vis10/02/2003Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Robert Wareing11/02/2003Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady12/02/2003South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jim Cunningham12/02/2003Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Annabelle Ewing12/02/2003PerthScottish National PartySigned
Jeremy Corbyn13/02/2003Islington NorthLabourSigned
Paul Marsden28/02/2003Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington12/03/2003Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson20/03/2003Nottingham SouthLabourSigned

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