VoteClimate: Global Security (Non-Proliferation) - 4th March 2010

Global Security (Non-Proliferation) - 4th March 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Global Security (Non-Proliferation).

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-03-04/debates/10030452000001/GlobalSecurity(Non-Proliferation)

14:30 Mike Gapes (Ilford, South) (Lab/Co-op)

However, there are complications to the US-Russia relationship. First, the Russians have adopted a new posture that defines NATO as the main enemy. Members of the Committee were in Brussels last Monday and Tuesday, and we heard about that in some detail during discussions. Russia says that its main enemy is not terrorism, Islamist fundamentalism or climate change—although one would not expect that from the Russians—but NATO. That sits oddly in the context of the new opening up of dialogue and potential agreement with the Americans.

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