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President-Elect Obama And Support For Nuclear Disarmament

EDM number 2491 in 2007-08, proposed by Dai Davies on 12/11/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Defence policy, International politics and government and Nuclear power.

That this House welcomes the support for nuclear disarmament initiatives and the strengthening of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty made by President-elect Obama in his successful campaign for the United States presidency; notes that he affirmed the `long-term goal of achieving a world free of all nuclear weapons', echoing the personal commitment made by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in their nuclear disarmament summit in Reykjavik in 1986; further notes that, as a Senator, Barack Obama also co-sponsored with Republican Senator Dick Lugar in 2007 a resolution in the US Senate to control nuclear explosive materials with the goal of `entirely securing all nuclear material in vulnerable sites within four years'; further notes that Mr Obama said in August 2007, during the Presidential campaign, he would, if elected, make it his `priority to build bipartisan consensus behind ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty'; and believes the Government should work constructively with President Obama to achieve these excellent global security goals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dai Davies12/11/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentProposed
Jeremy Corbyn13/11/2008Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Tony Lloyd13/11/2008Manchester CentralLabourSeconded
David Chaytor13/11/2008Bury NorthLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore13/11/2008HendonLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley13/11/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
David Drew13/11/2008StroudLabourSigned
Martin Caton13/11/2008GowerLabourSigned
Alan Meale13/11/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones13/11/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Marsha Singh13/11/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice13/11/2008PendleLabourSigned
Bob Spink17/11/2008Castle PointUKIPSigned
Kelvin Hopkins17/11/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson17/11/2008Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
David Lepper17/11/2008Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Robert Wareing17/11/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Jim Devine17/11/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer18/11/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil18/11/2008Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Mike Wood18/11/2008Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Michael Weir18/11/2008AngusScottish National PartySigned
Mark Durkan18/11/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Harry Cohen18/11/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Paul Holmes18/11/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard18/11/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Phil Willis19/11/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis19/11/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster19/11/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Janet Dean19/11/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/11/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell19/11/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Brian Jenkins20/11/2008TamworthLabourSigned
John Hemming20/11/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell24/11/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Emily Thornberry24/11/2008Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
Linda Riordan24/11/2008HalifaxLabourSigned
Simon Hughes25/11/2008North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Osborne25/11/2008Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Frank Cook25/11/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned

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