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Parliament supports SP: Make the Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free

17 December 2010

Parliament supports SP: Make the Middle East Nuclear Weapon Free

The Dutch national parliament has voted to support the organisation of a conference for a nuclear weapon free Middle East. The proposal, from SP Member of Parliament Harry van Bommel, to call on the government to host such a conference was adopted by Parliament's main legislative chamber today. 'After the lunatic talk from some MPs regarding the bombing of Iran, this is an intelligent decision,’ says Van Bommel.

Earlier in the year during the review conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty it was decided that in 2012 a conference should be held on nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, with the aim of moving towards disarmament.'It is of the greatest importance that a negotiated disarmament process is set in motion,' says Van Bommel.

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