Global Summit For A Nuclear Weapon Free World

EDM number 892 in 2007-08, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 05/02/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Arms control.

That this House notes the 50th anniversary of the founding meeting of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on 17th February 1958; supports the campaign's ongoing work to achieve worldwide nuclear disarmament; congratulates the campaign for convening the Global Summit for a Nuclear Weapon Free World on 16th and 17th February 2008, drawing together leading diplomatic, scientific and policy experts, including Ambassador Sergio Duarte, chair of the 2005 Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference; and calls on the Government to re-focus on creating the conditions for abolishing nuclear weapons, including facilitating negotiations on achieving a Nuclear Weapons Convention.

This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.