Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Bob Spink (Independent (affiliation)), on Wednesday, 3 December 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 36 members in total.

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SAFETY OF MINORITY COMMUNITIES IN IRAQ

That this House is concerned that the failure to honour promises made after the First World War to the Assyrians and Kurdish minority communities on autonomy, the creation of a centralised Iraq in 1932 without provision for the security of minorities, the recent war of 2003 which led to the rise of fundamentalism, and the ethnic cleansing of the Mandaeans and Assyrian-Chaldeo-Syriacs in Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, place a special responsibility on the Government to these minorities; calls on the Government to therefore take a sympathetic attitude to asylum claims from these minorities; and urges the Government to learn from past mistakes and to use its influence in a robust way on the government of Iraq to ensure the safety of the aforementioned minorities as well as of Yezidis, Faili Kurds and Shabaks, so that a dishonourable withdrawal from Iraq is avoided.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

27 

Session

2008-09

Other sponsors

Colin Breed

Andrew Dismore

Andrew George

Mike Hancock

Paul Rowen

Subjects

Human rights Iraq Ethnic groups

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk