Mediterranean Tragedies
- Submitted by: Christina McKelvie, Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse, Scottish National Party.
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2015
- Motion reference: S4M-12964
That the Parliament calls on the Scottish Government to urge the UK Government to provide help to the migrants who are trying to reach Europe on boats across the Mediterranean; notes with horror the recent deaths of more than 700 migrants; understands that Giuseppina Maria Nicolini, the Mayor of Lampedusa, has made several calls for help to be given, including at the Humanitarian Congress in Vienna in March 2015; urges the EU to reconsider its Triton programme, which was launched in November 2014 as a replacement to Mare Nostrum; understands that the programme is aimed at control and not about the rescue of migrants and that funding has dropped by £6 million to £3 million, and hopes that this call will be heard by the UK Government so that such tragedies will not happen again.
Supported by:
Colin Beattie, Bruce Crawford, Nigel Don, Neil Findlay, John Finnie, Rob Gibson, Adam Ingram, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Angus MacDonald, Gordon MacDonald, Mike MacKenzie, Hanzala Malik, John Mason, Joan McAlpine, Stuart McMillan, Gil Paterson, Dennis Robertson, Alex Rowley, Michael Russell, Kevin Stewart, Dave Thompson, David Torrance, Jean Urquhart, Sandra White