32878 2006-07 1127 Dai Davies 2007-03-14 That this House recalls that when the then United Kingdom Labour Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, the right hon. Fred (later Lord) Mulley, addressed the Eighteen Nation Disarmament Committee (ENDC) in Geneva, on 23rd January 1968, explaining why nations should sign up to the newly negotiated Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), he said: `My Government accepts the obligation to participate fully in the [nuclear disarmament] negotiations required by [NPT] Article 6 and it is our desire that these negotiations should begin as soon as possible and should produce speedy and successful results. There is no excuse now for allowing a long delay to follow the signing of this Treaty'; contrasts this commitment to disarmament with the statement made by Mr Mulley's modern day counterpart, the hon. Member for Pontypridd, who told the successor to the ENDC, the Committee on Disarmament, on 22nd February 2007 that the United Kingdom needed to ensure that it had the capability in 17 years' time to retain a submarine-based deterrent, and that the UK Government did not believe that the circumstances currently existed for the safety of the country for it to choose unilaterally to renounce its nuclear weapons; notes that the NPT does not require unilateral nuclear disarmament, but does require the entering of the UK nuclear weapons of mass destruction into multilateral nuclear negotiations; and condemns the Government, 39 years after making such strong public pledges to negotiate nuclear disarmament, for such a flagrant refusal to meet the United Kingdom's NPT commitments. Dai Davies 2007-03-14 Proposed Blaenau Gwent Independent Frank Cook 2007-03-14 Seconded Stockton North Labour John McDonnell 2007-03-14 Seconded Hayes and Harlington Labour Lynne Jones 2007-03-14 Seconded Birmingham, Selly Oak Labour George Galloway 2007-03-14 Seconded Bethnal Green and Bow Respect Andrew George 2007-03-14 Seconded St Ives Liberal Democrat David Taylor 2007-03-15 Signed North West Leicestershire Labour Neil Gerrard 2007-03-15 Signed Walthamstow Labour Jeremy Corbyn 2007-03-15 Signed Islington North Labour Alan Simpson 2007-03-15 Signed Nottingham South Labour Gordon Prentice 2007-03-15 Signed Pendle Labour Robert Wareing 2007-03-19 Signed Liverpool, West Derby Labour Desmond Turner 2007-03-19 Signed Brighton, Kemptown Labour Paul Flynn 2007-03-19 Signed Newport West Labour Bill Etherington 2007-03-19 Signed Sunderland North Labour Harry Cohen 2007-03-19 Signed Leyton and Wanstead Labour Kelvin Hopkins 2007-03-20 Signed Luton North Labour Michael Clapham 2007-03-20 Signed Barnsley West and Penistone Labour Elfyn Llwyd 2007-03-21 Signed Meirionnydd Nant Conwy Plaid Cymru Ronnie Campbell 2007-03-21 Signed Blyth Valley Labour Stephen Williams 2007-03-21 Signed Bristol West Liberal Democrat Adam Price 2007-05-21 Signed Carmarthen East and Dinefwr Plaid Cymru Hywel Williams 2007-05-22 Signed Caernarfon Plaid Cymru