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New Zealand Waitangi Day 2012

EDM number 2698 in 2010-12, proposed by Andrew Rosindell on 06/02/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Australasia.

That this House is proud to join the people of New Zealand in celebrating Waitangi Day, their national day, on 6 February, which in 2012 coincides with the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty the Queen's accession to the throne, in the year of Her Majesty's Diamond Jubilee, a day that commemorates the historic signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and that marks the coming together of the Maori people and representatives of the British Crown; recognises the importance of maintaining the closest relations between the UK and New Zealand; cherishes the strong historical bond and unshakable friendship that exists between all the peoples of the British Isles and the islands of New Zealand; further recognises the shared heritage, common language, long-standing trading relationships and deeply interwined cultural, educational and military ties that exist between these great allies and Commonwealth members who also take pride in sharing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as Head of State and Sovereign; and urges the UK Government to continue to foster and strengthen this special relationship that, despite the long distances that separate two nations that are oceans apart and on opposite corners of the Earth, continues to bind those two nations together.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew Rosindell06/02/2012RomfordConservativeProposed
Jim Shannon07/02/2012StrangfordDUPSeconded
David Simpson07/02/2012Upper BannDUPSeconded
James Gray07/02/2012North WiltshireConservativeSeconded
William McCrea07/02/2012South AntrimDUPSeconded
Andrew Stephenson07/02/2012PendleConservativeSeconded
Gregory Campbell08/02/2012East LondonderryDUPSigned
Mike Hancock08/02/2012Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley08/02/2012Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Lindsay Roy20/02/2012GlenrothesLabourSigned
Lady Hermon21/02/2012North DownIndependentSigned
Nigel Dodds23/02/2012Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Mike Gapes23/02/2012Ilford SouthLabourSigned
David Crausby28/02/2012Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John Hemming28/02/2012Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned

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