UK PRESIDENCY OF THE G8 AND CLIMATE CHANGE, POVERTY REDUCTION AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Early day motion 455, tabled 29 June 2005 by David Chaytor (Labour). Signed by 46 members.

That this House congratulates the Prime Minister on prioritising climate change, poverty reduction and the plight of Africa as major themes of the UK G8 presidency; notes that four of the G8 states are also nulcear powers; regrets the lack of agreement at the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to build on the commitments given at the 2000 NPT Conference to work towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons; recognises the waste of scarce public resources in the budgets allocated by the world's nuclear states to the research, development, maintenance and deployment of nuclear weapons; agrees with the Prime Minister that poverty and climate change represent the most serious threats to global security; and therefore calls on the G8 leaders during the UK presidency to commit to a major transfer of resources from nuclear weapons development to investment in renewable energy technologies and economic and social development in Africa.

Signatures by party: Labour 43, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.