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INDIAN NUCLEAR TESTS (No. 2)

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1322A1: tabled on 19 May 1998

Tabled in the 1997-98 session.

This motion has been signed by 2 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Mr Lindsay Hoyle on 13 May 1998. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

leave out from 'House' to end and add 'welcomes the positive telephone call between the Prime minister and Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee and the desires expressed by the Prime Minister of India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty

Original motion text

That this House condemns the government of India for detonating three nuclear devices in underground tests and then defying world opinion and protests by detonating two further devices; believes that such action is dangerously inflammatory in an unstable region; believes that testing nuclear weapons is a retrograde step in the current world climate; and calls upon the Government to make representations to India to cease all nuclear testing immediately and sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

There are no withdrawn signatures for this amendment.