Oau Declaration

EDM number 173 in 1989-90, proposed by Robert Hughes on 07/12/1989.

That this House fully endorses the Declaration of the Organisation of African Unity on the Question of South Africa adopted in Harare on 21st August which, with a view to ending apartheid, sets out: (a) the pre-conditions necessary to create a climate for negotiations in South Africa, namely that the authorities should: (1) release all political prisoners and detainees unconditionally and refrain from imposing any restrictions on them, (2) lift all bans and restrictions on all proscribed and restricted organisations and persons, (3) remove all troops from the townships, (4) end the state of emergency and repeal all legislation, such as and including the Internal Security Act, designed to circumscribe political activity, and (5) cease all trials and executions, (b) guidelines for the process of negotiations in South Africa, and (c) the principles of a new constitutional order for a united non-racial and democratic South Africa; welcomes the endorsement of the OAU Declaration by the Non-Aligned Movement at its summit meeting in September; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to support the adoption of the OAU Declaration by the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on apartheid and its destructive consequences in Southern Africa which takes place from 12th to 14th December.

This motion has been signed by a total of 74 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Robert Hughes	07/12/1989	Aberdeen North		Proposed
Andrew Faulds	07/12/1989	Warley East		Signed
Derek Fatchett	07/12/1989	Leeds Central		Signed
John Evans	07/12/1989	St Helens North		Signed
Alexander Eadie	07/12/1989	Midlothian		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	07/12/1989	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Ron Davies	07/12/1989	Caerphilly		Signed
Alistair Darling	07/12/1989	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Jim Cousins	07/12/1989	Newcastle upon Tyne Central		Signed
Michael Foot	07/12/1989	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Norman Godman	07/12/1989	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
James Wray	07/12/1989	Glasgow Provan		Signed
David Winnick	07/12/1989	Walsall North		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	07/12/1989	Durham, City of		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	07/12/1989	St Helens South		Signed
Kevin Barron	07/12/1989	Rother Valley		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	07/12/1989	North West Durham		Signed
Bruce Grocott	07/12/1989	Wrekin, The		Signed
Graham Allen	07/12/1989	Nottingham North		Signed
Frank Cook	07/12/1989	Stockton North		Signed
David Clelland	07/12/1989	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	07/12/1989	Blyth Valley		Signed
Simon Hughes	07/12/1989	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
George Howarth	07/12/1989	Knowsley North		Signed
Doug Henderson	07/12/1989	Newcastle upon Tyne North		Signed
Ernie Ross	07/12/1989	Dundee West		Signed
Jeff Rooker	07/12/1989	Birmingham, Perry Barr		Signed
Allan Rogers	07/12/1989	Rhondda		Signed
Terry Patchett	07/12/1989	Barnsley East		Signed
Peter Pike	07/12/1989	Burnley		Signed
John Hume	07/12/1989	Foyle		Signed
Tony Lloyd	07/12/1989	Stretford		Signed
Richard Caborn	07/12/1989	Sheffield Central		Signed
Keith Bradley	07/12/1989	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Alf Morris	07/12/1989	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Elliot Morley	07/12/1989	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Alan Meale	07/12/1989	Mansfield		Signed
Henry McLeish	07/12/1989	Central Fife		Signed
William McKelvey	07/12/1989	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Geoffrey Lofthouse	07/12/1989	Pontefract & Castleford		Signed
Harry Barnes	08/12/1989	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	08/12/1989	Islington North		Signed
John Battle	11/12/1989	Leeds West		Signed
Terry Davis	11/12/1989	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
John Cummings	11/12/1989	Easington		Signed
Tom Cox	11/12/1989	Tooting		Signed
Bill Michie	11/12/1989	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Ian McCartney	11/12/1989	Makerfield		Signed
Eric Illsley	11/12/1989	Barnsley Central		Signed
Peter Hardy	11/12/1989	Wentworth		Signed
Martin Redmond	11/12/1989	Don Valley		Signed
Robert Parry	11/12/1989	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Joan Walley	12/12/1989	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Maria Fyfe	12/12/1989	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Frank Doran	12/12/1989	Aberdeen South		Signed
Denzil Davies	12/12/1989	Llanelli		Signed
Alun Michael	12/12/1989	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
Tony Banks	13/12/1989	Newham North West		Signed
Win Griffiths	13/12/1989	Bridgend		Signed
Roy Hughes	13/12/1989	Newport East		Signed
David Hinchliffe	13/12/1989	Wakefield		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	13/12/1989	Bristol South		Signed
Chris Smith	14/12/1989	Islington South & Finsbury		Signed
Harry Cohen	14/12/1989	Leyton		Signed
George Galloway	14/12/1989	Glasgow Hillhead		Signed
Joan Ruddock	15/12/1989	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Terry Lewis	18/12/1989	Worsley		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/12/1989	Wansbeck		Signed
Bob Cryer	21/12/1989	Bradford South		Signed
Diane Abbott	11/01/1990	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Eddie Loyden	12/01/1990	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Tommy Graham	18/01/1990	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Audrey Wise	23/01/1990	Preston		Signed
Norman Buchan	Unknown			Withdrawn

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