PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA AND SUPPORT FOR NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT

Early day motion 147, tabled 4 December 2008 by Dai Davies (Independent). Signed by 51 members.

That this House welcomes the support for nuclear disarmament initiatives and the strengthening of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty made by President-elect Obama in his successful campaign for the United States Presidency; notes that he affirmed the `long-term goal of achieving a world free of all nuclear weapons'; echoing the personal commitment made by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in their nuclear disarmament summit in Reykjavik in 1986; further notes that as a Senator, Barack Obama also co-sponsored with Republic Senator Dick Lugar in 2007 a resolution in the US Senate to control nuclear explosive materials with the goal of `entirely securing all nuclear material in vulnerable sites within four years'; further notes that Mr Obama said in August 2007, during the Presidential campaign, that he would, if elected, make it his `priority to build bipartisan consensus behind ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty'; and believes the Government should work constructively with President Obama to achieve these excellent global security goals.

Signatures by party: Labour 31, Liberal Democrat 10, Independent 3, Conservative 2, Plaid Cymru 2, Respect 1, Scottish National Party 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.