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Disappearance Of Raoul Wallenberg

EDM number 1357 in 1989-90, proposed by David Atkinson on 25/07/1990.

That this House notes the 44th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg's courageous struggle against the Nazis on behalf of the Hungarian Jewish community which resulted in the saving of 100,000 lives; further notes his unaccountable disappearance in the hands of the liberating Soviet forces, and, bearing in mind that despite the Soviet Union's statement in 1957 that it seemed probable from their records that he had died in 1947 under Stalin, there have been numerous reports that he has been sighted in Soviet prisons during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's and as recently as 1981; and calls upon the Government to make further representation to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in order to discover his fate and ensure his release if he is still alive, and to introduce legislation conferring honorary British citizenship upon him in recognition of his selfless and courageous actions, thus following the lead taken by the United States of America, Canada, Israel, Australia and a number of other nations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Atkinson25/07/1990Bournemouth EastProposed
Simon Hughes25/07/1990Southwark and BermondseySigned
Alistair Burt25/07/1990Bury NorthSigned
Diane Abbott25/07/1990Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Gavin Strang25/07/1990Edinburgh EastSigned
Chris Smith26/07/1990Islington South & FinsburySigned
Peter Hardy26/07/1990WentworthSigned
Jacques Arnold26/07/1990GraveshamSigned
Russell Johnston06/09/1990Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Tommy Graham06/09/1990Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Win Griffiths07/09/1990BridgendSigned
Harry Barnes07/09/1990North East DerbyshireSigned
Greville Janner15/10/1990Leicester WestSigned
David Knox15/10/1990Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
John Cummings16/10/1990EasingtonSigned
Nicholas Winterton16/10/1990MacclesfieldSigned
Richard Alexander16/10/1990NewarkSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe16/10/1990LeighSigned
David Shaw17/10/1990DoverSigned
Alan Meale17/10/1990MansfieldSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie17/10/1990Glasgow, PollokSigned
Norman Godman17/10/1990Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Bruce Grocott17/10/1990Wrekin, TheSigned
Paul Boateng17/10/1990Brent SouthSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody23/10/1990Crewe & NantwichSigned
John Battle24/10/1990Leeds WestSigned
Gerry Steinberg24/10/1990Durham, City ofSigned
Eric Illsley25/10/1990Barnsley CentralSigned
Ian McCartney25/10/1990MakerfieldSigned

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