As passed by conference
Submitted by: Twickenham & Richmond.
Mover: Richard Foord MP (Spokesperson for Defence).
Summation: Sarah Olney MP (Spokesperson for Treasury, Business and Industrial Strategy).
Conference notes the rapidly changing situation in Ukraine, including:
Conference further notes:
Conference believes that:
Conference therefore reaffirms the Liberal Democrats' commitment to forcefully stand up to Putin, alongside Ukraine and Ukraine's international partners, in defence of liberal values, and accordingly calls on the UK Government to:
Applicability: Federal.
Conference notes the rapidly changing situation in Ukraine, including:
Conference further notes:
Conference believes that:
Conference therefore reaffirms the Liberal Democrats' commitment to forcefully stand up to Putin, alongside Ukraine and Ukraine's international partners, in defence of liberal values, and accordingly calls on the UK Government to:
Applicability: Federal.
Mover: 7 minutes; summation of motion and mover and summation of any amendments: 4 minutes; all other speakers: 3 minutes. For eligibility and procedure for speaking in this debate, see pages 110-111 of the agenda.
To take account of the rapidly changing situation in Ukraine, the deadline for amendments to this motion is 13.00 Thursday 21 September. Those selected for debate will be printed in Saturday's and Monday's Conference Daily. The deadline for requests for separate votes is 09.00 on Sunday 24 September.
The FCC has agreed to make the following drafting amendment to the motion:
In iv) (lines 26–27), delete ‘failure to proscribe the Group as a terrorist organisation’ and insert ‘decision in September 2023 to proscribe the Group, over eighteen months after Liberal Democrats were the first to call for the Group’s proscription’.
Delete 3. (line 56) and insert:
3. Build on the long-overdue proscription of the Wagner Group, by making the case to our international allies such as the US and the EU to take the same step, and working with them to ensure proscription orders and sanctions are not circumvented.
Brighton & Hove
Mover: Michael Wang.
After vii) (line 36), insert:
viii) The ongoing persecution of anti-war activists inside Russia, including criminal proceedings for the dissemination of accurate information regarding the conflict that contradicts the official narratives of the Russian Government. These proceedings carry a maximum sentence of 10-15 years.
After 7. (line 79), add:
8. Take a stance to defend anti-war activists inside Russia, through initiatives such as: