Regime In Afghanistan (EDM549)

Regime In Afghanistan

EDM number 549 in 2000-01, proposed by Harry Cohen on 04/04/2001.

That this House recalls the exchange in the House on 8th March 1989, Official Report, column 892, between the honourable Member for Leyton and the then Foreign Secretary in which the former asked why the then Government was backing a rag-bag of fanatics and terrorists in Afghanistan who if they ever achieved power would be a deadly cocktail of the Ayatollah and Pol Pot, keep the country feudal and the Afghani people having to endure incessant hostilities, to which the Minister, now Lord Howe of Aberavon, claimed that by their assumption of power bloodshed could end and further declared that the honourable Member's perception of the matter was wholly at fault; and concludes from this 12 year vantage point that the honourable Member for Leyton was right and the Conservative Foreign Secretary wholly at fault.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Harry Cohen	04/04/2001	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Proposed
Eric Illsley	05/04/2001	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	05/04/2001	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Bill Michie	05/04/2001	Sheffield, Heeley	Labour	Signed
Eric Clarke	05/04/2001	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Maria Fyfe	05/04/2001	Glasgow, Maryhill	Labour	Signed
Norman Godman	05/04/2001	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Robert Wareing	05/04/2001	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	06/04/2001	Islington North	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	09/04/2001	Easington	Labour	Signed
Terry Davis	09/04/2001	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Labour	Signed
Ashok Kumar	09/04/2001	Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	09/04/2001	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	10/04/2001	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	10/04/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	23/04/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	23/04/2001	Leigh	Labour	Signed
Ian Davidson	23/04/2001	Glasgow, Pollok	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Rudi Vis	23/04/2001	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	25/04/2001	Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	01/05/2001	Ilford South	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Neil Turner	01/05/2001	Wigan	Labour	Signed
John Austin	03/05/2001	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed

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