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Armed Aggression In Lithuania

EDM number 286 in 1990-91, proposed by David Alton on 14/01/1991.

That this House unreservedly condemns the military repression of the democratically elected sovereign government of Lithuania and calls upon Mr Mikhail Gorbachev to halt the killing of innocent unarmed civilians; recalls that the three Baltic republics of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia were occupied as a consequence of the infamous Nazi-Soviet pact of August 1939; that they are today pursuing their rightful claim to independence and democracy in a peaceful manner which this House should endorse; that as in Poland martial law and repression will do absolutely nothing to solve the socio-economic and ethnic crisis afflicting the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; that the use of repression to hold the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics together will prevent the implementation of reform, bring about the end of perestroika and glasnost and tarnish Mr Gorbachev's image in the West; and, therefore, calls upon the European Community, NATO and Western governments to consider the following actions in response to the military repression in Lithuania: postponement of the Bush-Gorbachev summit, credit and non-humanitarian aid to be halted, Mr Gorbachev's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize to be annulled and the Helsinki Review conference in Moscow to be cancelled.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Alton14/01/1991Liverpool Mossley HillProposed
Alex Salmond15/01/1991Banff & BuchanSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe15/01/1991LeighSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie15/01/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Paul Flynn15/01/1991Newport WestSigned
Norman Godman15/01/1991Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Geraint Howells16/01/1991Ceredigion and Pembroke NorthSigned
Terry Davis16/01/1991Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
John Evans16/01/1991St Helens NorthSigned
Ronnie Fearn16/01/1991SouthportSigned
Clifford Forsythe16/01/1991South AntrimSigned
John Taylor16/01/1991StrangfordSigned
Irene Adams17/01/1991Paisley NorthSigned
Jim Wallace18/01/1991Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Ian McCartney21/01/1991MakerfieldSigned
Alex Carlile22/01/1991MontgomerySigned
Win Griffiths23/01/1991BridgendSigned
Tony Lloyd25/01/1991StretfordSigned
Tommy Graham30/01/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones31/01/1991Ynys MSigned
Dafydd Wigley31/01/1991CaernarfonSigned
Max Madden04/02/1991Bradford WestSigned
Dennis Turner04/02/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
William McCrea04/02/1991Mid UlsterSigned
David Trimble28/02/1991Upper BannSigned
Andrew Hunter07/03/1991BasingstokeSigned

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