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To: gao seng who wrote (144716)	5/12/2001 2:43:14 AM
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Gao, From our closest friend: 100 MPs oppose US missile plan Richard Norton-Taylor Thursday May 10, 2001 The Guardian The government was warned yesterday about the extent of opposition among its supporters to America's missile defence plans when more than 100 MPs, the vast majority Labour, signed a motion opposing the project. The MPs, including a former defence minister, Peter Kilfoyle, and a former foreign minister, Tony Lloyd, held "grave doubts" about the US plan. They urged the government to encourage the US to explore other ways to counter the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In a separate move, the Commons defence committee warned that the attitude of a newly elected government will be tested "quickly and sharply". It added: "The question of defining more clearly its attitude to Washington's missile defence programme may come sooner rather than later, and certainly before any decision has to be taken about the upgrade of the Fylingdales radar station [in North Yorkshire]". Tony Blair has said the government would wait for a "firm proposal" by the Americans before reaching a "firm decision" though privately ministers said they would have little option but to accede to any US request to use American bases here for its missile defence project. Iain Duncan Smith, shadow defence secretary, seized on the Commons motion, arguing that Mr Blair was "too frightened to take a decision to support the Americans for fear of upsetting Labour members and his European socialist partners". Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman, said: "It is not good enough to decline to reach a decision on the principle simply because no formal request has been made". • Chances of cancers suffered by veterans of the Gulf and Balkan conflicts being caused by exposure to depleted uranium in ammunition were "infinitesimal", Lewis Moonie, the junior defence minister said yesterday. He said the Ministry of Defence was not prepared to go to mediation to settle financial claims from veterans claiming to have the Gulf war syndrome. He told the committee: "At present, we have not identified a single syndrome." guardian.co.uk