Safety Of Minority Communities In Iraq (EDM27)

Safety Of Minority Communities In Iraq

EDM number 27 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Spink on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Ethnic groups, Human rights and Iraq.

That this House is concerned that the failure to honour promises made after the First World War to the Assyrians and Kurdish minority communities on autonomy, the creation of a centralised Iraq in 1932 without provision for the security of minorities, the recent war of 2003 which led to the rise of fundamentalism, and the ethnic cleansing of the Mandaeans and Assyrian-Chaldeo-Syriacs in Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, place a special responsibility on the Government to these minorities; calls on the Government to therefore take a sympathetic attitude to asylum claims from these minorities; and urges the Government to learn from past mistakes and to use its influence in a robust way on the government of Iraq to ensure the safety of the aforementioned minorities as well as of Yezidis, Faili Kurds and Shabaks, so that a dishonourable withdrawal from Iraq is avoided.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Bob Spink	03/12/2008	Castle Point	Independent	Proposed
Mike Hancock	03/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew George	03/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Rowen	04/12/2008	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Colin Breed	04/12/2008	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew Dismore	04/12/2008	Hendon	Labour	Seconded
Mark Durkan	08/12/2008	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Dan Rogerson	08/12/2008	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	08/12/2008	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Derek Conway	08/12/2008	Old Bexley and Sidcup	Independent	Signed
John McDonnell	08/12/2008	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Evan Harris	08/12/2008	Oxford West and Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Russell	08/12/2008	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	09/12/2008	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Hywel Williams	09/12/2008	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Nick Harvey	10/12/2008	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Caton	10/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
Willie Rennie	10/12/2008	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	11/12/2008	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Hemming	11/12/2008	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	11/12/2008	Brecon and Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	15/12/2008	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	16/12/2008	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Frank Cook	16/12/2008	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	16/12/2008	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Jennifer Willott	16/12/2008	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	18/12/2008	North Southwark and Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Burstow	18/12/2008	Sutton and Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Hamilton	12/01/2009	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	13/01/2009	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Adrian Sanders	15/01/2009	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Pelling	22/01/2009	Croydon Central	Independent	Signed
Fabian Hamilton	27/01/2009	Leeds North East	Labour	Signed
Andy Reed	05/03/2009	Loughborough	Labour	Signed
John Austin	01/06/2009	Erith and Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Alan Keen	04/11/2009	Feltham and Heston	Labour	Signed

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