IRAQI TRANSPORT UNIONS' VISIT TO THE UK

Early day motion 926, tabled 18 February 2008 by David Anderson (Labour). Signed by 36 members.

That this House warmly welcomes the visit to the UK, as guests of the Trades Union Congress and assisted by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of a senior delegation for several transport unions in Iraq and the Kurdistan region in Iraq including a briefing meeting from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on 20th February in the Thatcher Room; notes that the participants Mr Hussain Jasim Almohammed, Vice President of the Transport and Communication Workers Union, Mr Turki Lazm Jbara, President of the All Ports Workers' Union, Mrs Slafa Mahmood Mohammed, Member of the Baghdad Railway Workers' Union Committee and Mr Essmat Khalid Saleem, President of the Transport Workers' Union in Duhok will visit different parts of the UK; and urges increased support for the Iraqi trade union movement in its efforts to unite working people.

Signatures by party: Labour 30, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Liberal Democrat 1, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1.