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A CANADIAN MP has lodged an official motion urging Canada to rethink the proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Turkey.
The motion, proposed last month by MP Sarkis Assadourian, suggests
Canada should reconsider the idea of selling nuclear reactors to a
country with Turkey's level of human rights violations and history of
aggression.
Community groups will come before the Parliamentary Standing Committee
some time during the next two weeks to voice their concerns over the
possible deal.
Assadourian has described the sale as "not right", and has the backing of Greek and Greek Cypriot community organisations in Canada. One of these, the International Co-ordinating Committee - Justice for Cyprus (PSEKA Canada) has already undertaken a letter-writing campaign to Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, and aims by April to have collected up to 90,000 signatures on a petition protesting the sale. The petition has already be distributed across Canada.
PSEKA President Constantinos Sophocleous said his group opposed the sale because of the potential it gave Turkey for the manufacture of nuclear weapons, something he described as a "destabilising factor".
Canada is currently in competition with Germany, France and America to
sell reactors to Turkey.
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