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Nieuws uit 2008

27 March 2008

Offer an escape route from suffering, not from life

Agnes Kant, SP member of Parliament and spokeswoman on health care issues

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25 March 2008

SP: ‘Support for a EUFOR mission dominated by France makes no sense’

In Chad and the Central African Republic, the Netherlands would be better offering support to a neutral UN intervention than to a European mission, as long as the detrimental role played by the French in the region continues, SP Member of Parliament and development spokesman Ewout Irrgang will say in today's parliamentary debate on the proposed mission.

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21 March 2008

Winning the war, losing the peace

Five years ago the United States and Britain launched an illegal invasion of Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction. These turned out not to be there. The world must now draw up a balance sheet of the results of this action. The conclusions are damning

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19 March 2008

SP branches debate party's policy on integration

Today saw the SP's newly proposed policy on integration made available to the party's more than 50,000 members. The statement, entitled Shared Future, will now be discussed in the branches, leading to a renewed and updated policy on integration.

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18 March 2008

Parliament compels Minister to oppose resumption of whaling

Parliament today adopted with cross-party support a proposal from SP animal welfare specialist Krista van Velzen which will compel Agriculture Minister Gerda Verburg to support in its entirety the existing moratorium on the hunting of whales. Verburg had declared her intention to develop a joint proposal with Japan, Iceland and Norway which would permit whaling in a limited number of areas.

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17 March 2008

Recognise genocide against Kurds

On Sunday it will be just twenty years ago that Saddam Hussein attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons. This attack formed part of the Anfal Campaign, which was aimed at driving out or destroying the population of Iraqi Kurdistan. Members of Parliament Harry van Bommel and Fred Teeven recently attended the international conference on this subject in Erbil, Iraq. They have since together taken up the cause of international recognition of the genocide committed against the Kurds and of the establishment of a commemorative monument in the Netherlands.

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