Nato Membership

EDM number 1088 in 2008-09, proposed by Jeremy Corbyn on 13/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of NATO and Russia.

That this House notes the 60th anniversary of the founding of NATO which takes place in April 2009; believes that the anniversary of this nuclear-armed alliance provides the opportunity to reconsider the organisation's role in the world, particularly given the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact; welcomes the recent statement of 7 February 2009 by US Vice-President Joe Biden that the White House wants to press the reset button on US relations with Russia; therefore regrets the statements of support for Georgian and Ukranian membership of NATO made during the summer of 2008 by the US and UK governments; believes that a further expansion of NATO can only worsen relations with Russia; and therefore calls on the Government not to support the issuing of membership action plans to Georgia, Ukraine and other new states.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.