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

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes the European Union’s concern regarding Russia’s aggressive military actions in Georgia;

(b)

notes:

(i)

Prime Minister Putin’s long-standing policy of suppression of dissent in Russia,

(ii)

Russia’s nuclear cooperation with Iran through the supply of reactor technology and nuclear fuel for the facilities at Bushehr,

(iii)

the fragile state of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty due to the Nuclear Weapons States not fulfilling their legal obligation to disarm,

(iv)

the Russian Chief of the Armed Forces, General Yuri Baluevsky has claimed the right to use nuclear weapons ‘preventatively’, and

(v)

that it is Australia’s stated aim to be a ‘responsible supplier of uranium’; and

(c)

calls on the Government to immediately repudiate the Australia-Russia uranium agreement signed by former Prime Minister Howard and the then President Putin in 2007.

Question put.