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Treatment Of Christians In Iraq

EDM number 344 in 2008-09, proposed by Edward Leigh on 17/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Iraq and Religious discrimination.

That this House is deeply concerned by the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians, which has decimated much of Iraq's ancient Assyrian-Chaldean community; notes that the Assyrian-Chaldeans make up over 95 per cent. of Iraq's Christians and that this exodus has largely been caused by escalating violence against Christians from fanatical extremists, including the bombing of churches and the assassination of Iraqi Christians; further notes that there has been illegal expropriation of Assyrian-Chaldean land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain in northern Iraq; recognises that Iraqi Christians are a major force for moderation, who can act as a significant buffer against the spread of extremism in Iraq; calls on the British and Iraqi governments urgently to encourage and support the creation of a self-governing province in Iraq for the Assyrian-Chaldeans, linked to the central government in Baghdad, situated in and around the Nineveh Plain and including the Tel Kaif, Al-Hamdaniya and Al-Shikhan districts, and governed by the Assyrian-Chaldeans and other ethnic groups living in that area, as these lands form part of the ancestral homeland of the Assyrian-Chaldeans and are still heavily populated by them; and urges the United Kingdom and Iraqi governments to support financially the reconstruction of the region, to end the political marginalisation of the democratically-elected Assyrian-Chaldean representatives in Iraq, to assist the Assyrian-Chaldeans in reclaiming their land and villages in Dohuk province and the Nineveh Plain, and to financially support internally displaced Assyrian-Chaldeans and the return and resettlement of Assyrian-Chaldean refugees.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Edward Leigh17/12/2008GainsboroughConservativeProposed
Tim Farron17/12/2008Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Russell Brown17/12/2008Dumfries and GallowayLabourSeconded
Gregory Campbell17/12/2008East LondonderryDUPSeconded
David Simpson17/12/2008Upper BannDUPSeconded
Mark Durkan17/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Mike Hancock18/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Philip Davies18/12/2008ShipleyConservativeSigned
Peter Bottomley18/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
David Amess18/12/2008Southend WestConservativeSigned
Neil Gerrard18/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Andrew George18/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Colin Breed18/12/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell18/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders18/12/2008TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Key18/12/2008SalisburyConservativeSigned
Evan Harris18/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore18/12/2008HendonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin12/01/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Greg Hands12/01/2009Hammersmith and FulhamConservativeSigned
Betty Williams12/01/2009ConwyLabourSigned
David Taylor12/01/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell12/01/2009Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Lilley12/01/2009Hitchin and HarpendenConservativeSigned
Brian Iddon12/01/2009Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Andrew Selous12/01/2009South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Jim Devine13/01/2009LivingstonLabourSigned
Mark Hunter13/01/2009CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton13/01/2009MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
John Whittingdale13/01/2009Maldon and East ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Steve Webb13/01/2009NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton13/01/2009GowerLabourSigned
David Drew13/01/2009StroudLabourSigned
Marsha Singh13/01/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle13/01/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
William Cash13/01/2009StoneConservativeSigned
Elfyn Llwyd14/01/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Ann Cryer14/01/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil14/01/2009Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Edward Davey15/01/2009Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Christopher Huhne19/01/2009EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
John Leech19/01/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams19/01/2009CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson21/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
William McCrea21/01/2009South AntrimDUPSigned
John Pugh22/01/2009SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton22/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Malcolm Moss26/01/2009North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins27/01/2009TamworthLabourSigned
David Heyes09/02/2009Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
John Horam23/02/2009OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Joan Humble23/02/2009Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Graham Stringer27/02/2009Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady02/03/2009South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nigel Dodds03/03/2009Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Linda Riordan04/03/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Andy Reed05/03/2009LoughboroughLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay12/03/2009ThurrockLabourSigned
Iris Robinson16/03/2009StrangfordDUPSigned
Richard Burden18/03/2009Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Graham Stuart19/03/2009Beverley and HoldernessConservativeSigned
Ian Cawsey01/04/2009Brigg and GooleLabourSigned
Simon Hughes02/04/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/04/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Norman Lamb26/06/2009North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned

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