Iraq And Niger Uranium

EDM number 552 in 2003-04, proposed by Llew Smith on 04/02/2004.

That this House notes that the outgoing Head of the Iraq Survey Group, Dr David Kay, told the New York Times in an interview published on 26th January that his team had uncovered no evidence that Niger had tried to sell uranium to Iraq for its nuclear weapons programme and that the original reports on Niger have been found to be based on forged documents, and that the Bush administration has since backed away from its initial assertions; contrasts this with the reply by the Prime Minister to the honourable Member for Blaenau Gwent on 28th October 2003 in which he said that the United Kingdom ensured that the International Atomic Energy Agency was made aware of the contents of non-UK-owned intelligence on apparent Iraqi attempts to procure uranium from Niger, and shared all relevant UK-owned material with the IAEA and United Nations Monitoring Vertification and Inspection Commission on these alleged uranium procurement activities; and calls upon the Government to explain, and publish, the exact source of its beliefs that Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons programme.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.