MISSILE DEFENCE

That this House notes that two Czechs citizens, Jan Tamas and Jan Bednar, went on hunger strike for several weeks to express their opposition to US plans to deploy missile defence radar facilities in their country; further notes that their hunger strike was inspired by several opinion polls showing that 70 per cent. of Czech people oppose the plan; recalls repeated statements by the former Russian President Putin that Russia would re-target western Europe if US missile defence facilities were located in the Czech Republic and Poland; congratulates Olga Zubova, deputy for the junior governing Green Party (SZ), Alena Gajduskova, senator for the senior opposition Social Democrats (CSSD), Anna Geislerova, famous Czech actress and Petr Uhl, former dissident and journalist, who have agreed to join the symbolic one-day fast chain hunger strike; calls on hon. Members to join this vigil in solidarity; and further calls on the Government to make provision for debate and decision on the UK's participation in the US missile defence system.