Letter from Tina Shaw
I am writing to you as Chair of the Foreign
Affairs Committee Inquiry into Global Security: Non-Proliferation.
I believe that the Non-Proliferation treaty
has, to date, been successful in preventing the further spread
of nuclear weapons to other countries. However, it is clearly
very difficult to continue to be so successful if those countries
which have nuclear weapons are not honouring their commitments
under Article 6.
How can the UK take a world lead when it is
planning to renew Trident? The UK's willingness to allow the US
to use Fylingdales and Menwith Hill also sends the wrong message
to other non-nuclear nations. The placing of the US missile defence
interceptors in Poland similarly sends the wrong message and is
escalating a dangerous response from Russia.
27 August 2008
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