Afghanistan Drug Cultivation

EDM number 749 in 2005-06, proposed by Paul Flynn on 12/10/2005.

That this House notes that spending £115 million of taxpayers' money on the eradication of heroin production in Afghanistan has failed, with a reduction of only 2 per cent. in production in 2004 compared with the previous year's record harvest; questions the planned spending of a further £155 million in an impossible mission; is convinced that a fall in heroin exports from Afghanistan will be replaced with increased production from Myanmar and Pakistan; and urges the diversion of poppy cultivation into legal diamorphine production to answer the current world shortage of this valuable, widely used medicine.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.