Multilateral Disarmament

EDM number 3 in 2015-16, proposed by Paul Flynn on 27/05/2015.
Categorised under the topic of Arms control.

That this House supports the Secretary of State for Defence, the right hon. Member for Sevenoaks, when he said in a parliamentary debate in January 2015 that the Government shares the vision of a world that is without nuclear weapons, achieved through multilateral disarmament (Official Report, 20 January 2015, column 105); welcomes the assurance of the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, the hon. Member for Bournemouth East, in a departmental press release on 23 May 2015 that the Government retains a commitment to a world without nuclear weapons; and calls on the Government to enter the Trident nuclear weapons system into immediate multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations to fulfil these commitments.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.