Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to amend general business notice of motion No. 576 standing in my name for today by omitting paragraph (b)(i).

Leave granted.

I move the motion as amended:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes that the United Nations Security Council will hold a summit on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament on 24 September 2009 with the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, presiding; and

(b)

calls on the Government to:

(i)

welcome the recent renewed optimism for a world free of nuclear weapons as expressed by the leaders of some nuclear weapons states,

(ii)

affirm the commitment made at the 2000 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty [NPT] Review Conference to the diminishing role of nuclear weapons in security policies, and

(iii)

urge all states possessing nuclear weapons to concrete and substantive action towards the elimination of their nuclear arsenals.

Question agreed to.