IRAQ REPARATIONS

Early day motion 1633, tabled 9 September 2004 by Harry Cohen (Labour). Signed by 21 members.

That this House notes with dismay that, to date, 18,580,891,450 US dollars and 30 cents of Iraq's money has been distributed by the United Nations Compensation Commission, much of it to very wealthy oil corporations and Kuwaiti potentates; notes that this included in the last quarter-year $177.5 million, of which $96 million went to Kuwait, paid out despite the appalling financial state of Iraq as a country and of very many of its people; considers the United Nations resolution which continued to authorise this financial blood-letting from Iraq, although it did not have the courage to refer to it directly, to have been obscene for doing so; and calls upon the UK Government to change its position to one of bringing a total halt to any further reparation payments from Iraq.

Signatures by party: Labour 17, Labour/Co-operative 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1, UUP 1.