IRAN AND ISRAEL

Early day motion 900, tabled 19 February 2007 by Lord Gove (Conservative). Signed by 67 members.

That this House notes the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's declarations that `Israel should be wiped off the map' and that the `Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of its life'; further notes President Ahmadinejad's statement that the UK, Israel and the United States will eventually disappear from the world; further notes that President Ahmadinejad has called the `Jews a bunch of bloodthirsty barbarians', and has said that `they should know they are nearing the last days of their lives'; further notes that President Ahmadinejad has called the murder of six million Jews `a fairytale' and that Iran has holocaust denial as official government policy; believes that President Ahmadinejad is inciting genocide in his declarations; further notes Iran's development of nuclear weapons which could be used to put into effect the genocidal declarations of its President; and therefore urges the British Government to put forward a resolution at the United Nations Security Council demanding President Ahmadinejad be brought to trial on the charge of incitement to commit genocide, in clear breach of Article 2 of the Genocide Convention of 1951.

Signatures by party: Conservative 43, Labour 15, Liberal Democrat 5, DUP 3, UUP 1.