Poppy Cultivation In Central Asia
EDM number 625 in 2003-04, proposed by Paul Flynn on 12/02/2004.
That this House expects the proposed war on Afghan drugs to replicate the anarchy that similar action caused in Columbia; recalls that destroying drug crops in Columbia has not cut production but has created a state of permanent civil war involving three armies, two of which are funded by drug money; notes that the reduction of 90 per cent. in poppy cultivation achieved by the Taliban has been reversed with this year's record crop; asserts that any future interruption in the supply of Afghan heroin will be immediately replaced by increases from Pakistan, Myanmar and Kazakhstan, leading to the bloody chaos of the Columbia-isation of a huge area of Central Asia; and declares that the only practical way to reduce heroin use is by cutting demand.
This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Paul Flynn | 12/02/2004 | Newport West | Labour | Proposed |
Elfyn Llwyd | 23/02/2004 | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | Plaid Cymru | Signed |
Rudi Vis | 23/02/2004 | Finchley & Golders Green | Labour | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 24/02/2004 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Labour | Signed |
Alan Meale | 25/02/2004 | Mansfield | Labour | Signed |
Jeremy Corbyn | 25/02/2004 | Islington North | Labour | Signed |
Nigel Jones | 26/02/2004 | Cheltenham | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Alice Mahon | 26/02/2004 | Halifax | Labour | Signed |
Jenny Tonge | 27/02/2004 | Richmond Park | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Bill Etherington | 01/03/2004 | Sunderland North | Labour | Signed |
Terry Lewis | 02/03/2004 | Worsley | Labour | Signed |
Alan Simpson | 04/03/2004 | Nottingham South | Labour | Signed |
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