NUCLEAR ESCALATION AND IRAQ

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That this House commends the article by Dr Rowan Williams, the next Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Daily Telegraph on 5th November; agrees with his analysis that military conflict initiated by the United States with United Kingdom support against Iraq could escalate into a nuclear conflict involving Israel; recognises with horror the huge numbers of innocent civilians and military conscripts who would die if nuclear weapons were exploded over or near densely populated cities in the middle east; further recognises that radioactively contaminated clouds show no respect for national borders, as the Chernobyl accident showed; and calls for all efforts be made to reach a diplomatic solution to the Iraq crisis.