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Houthi Consolidation Of Power In Yemen

EDM number 790 in 2014-15, proposed by Keith Vaz on 11/02/2015.
Categorised under the topics of International politics and government and Middle East.

That this House is deeply concerned by recent developments in Yemen, where the Houthi faction has announced that it will dissolve Parliament and establish an interim government; notes that the Houthi rebel group stormed the Presidential Palace and toppled the Yemeni government on 21 January 2015; is alarmed by the protests and clashes between rival factions across the country; urges all parties to return to talks; and calls on the Government to do all it can to prevent an escalation of violence and civil war, in this important and beautiful country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 13 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Keith Vaz11/02/2015Leicester EastLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley11/02/2015Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jim Cunningham11/02/2015Coventry SouthLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock11/02/2015Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jim Shannon12/02/2015StrangfordDUPSeconded
John McDonnell12/02/2015Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Alan Meale23/02/2015MansfieldLabourSigned
Bob Blackman23/02/2015Harrow EastConservativeSigned
Virendra Sharma23/02/2015Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/02/2015GowerLabourSigned
David Anderson24/02/2015BlaydonLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff25/02/2015Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
John Leech26/02/2015Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned

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