UN GENOCIDE CONVENTION 60TH ANNIVERSARY

Early day motion 177, tabled 8 December 2008 by Bob Spink (Independent). Signed by 16 members.

That this House notes that on 9 December, meetings in the House on the continuing persecution of minorities will mark the 60th anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention; further notes that organiser Raphael Lemkin is inspired by the genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in 1915, the subsequent massacre of Assyrians at the birth of modern Iraq, and his personal experience following the invasion of Poland; further notes that the Government has never consulted any reliable genocide scholars; and urges the Government to honour Raphael Lemkin's work by changing its untenable position of denial of the Armenian and Assyrian genocide.

Signatures by party: Labour 6, Liberal Democrat 5, Independent 2, DUP 1, Scottish National Party 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.