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Chamber and committees

Scotland, a Nation of Debt Justice

  • Submitted by: Jean Urquhart, Highlands and Islands, Independent.
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 November 2014
  • Motion reference: S4M-11518

That the Parliament commends the work of Jubilee Scotland in its campaign, Scotland: a Nation of Debt Justice; welcomes the Scottish Government's pledges in the independence campaign that an independent Scotland would “give careful consideration to the question of ‘unjust’ debts, work to ensure that Scottish export policies [did] not create new unjust debts” and that it would “support moves to establish Scotland as an international centre for debt arbitration”; considers that these goals can and should be pursued as part of the devolved constitutional settlement; regrets that the UK recently voted against resolution 68/304 of the UN General Assembly, which called for the establishment of a multilateral legal framework for sovereign debt restructuring; notes that this was agreed by 124 countries with only 11 opposed; expresses its support for that resolution, and calls on the UK Government to engage constructively in international discussions with a view to agreeing such a framework.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Malcolm Chisholm, Bruce Crawford, Nigel Don, Bob Doris, John Finnie, Christine Grahame, Alison Johnstone, Bill Kidd, Kenny MacAskill, Angus MacDonald, Stewart Maxwell, Fiona McLeod, Gil Paterson, Dennis Robertson, Kevin Stewart, Maureen Watt, Sandra White, John Wilson