LDEG Trident amendment

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LDEG Trident amendment

By the founding editor | Wed 28th February 2007 - 8:26 am

Text of motion below, article to follow in a couple of hours:

Amendment 1

Insert a new item (ix): “Notes that Britain’s current nuclear weapons system is dependent on the United States for technical and operational support and that dependency will remain if any replacement is based on the Trident missile system.”

Delete Article (C) and renumber accordingly

Article 3. – delete from ‘nuclear systems’ to end and replace with “with our European Union partners, in particular France, with the intent of securing a powerful and coherent European voice within NATO, subject to the constraints on such co-operation imposed by Article I of the NPT .”

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