NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES

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That this House agrees with President Obama's statement in his joint press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on 1 April 2009 that the United States and United Kingdom share a kinship of ideals; strongly supports this reformulation of the special relationship; notes that the United States and Russia are pressing ahead with negotiations first to reduce, and finally abolish nuclear weapons; rejects the Government's assertion that it is able to maintain very properly within the terms of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty its minimum nuclear deterrent; and calls on the Government to act upon this kinship of ideals and enter Britain into multilateral negotiations on the abolition of weapons of mass destruction.