PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
Mrs Violetta Chomorro (28 February 1990)

Leave out from 'congratulates' to end and add, 'President Ortega for his dignity in electoral defeat by Mrs Violeta Chamorro and his pledge to ensure a democratic handover of power; believes the elections in Nicaragua give the lie to all those who accused the Sandinistas of being anti-democratic; condemns the campaigns of state terrorism and economic warfare waged by successive United States administrations and supported by Her Majesty's Government which caused so much suffering to the Nicaraguan people; believes that President Bush would not have recognised a Sandinista victory under any circumstances; notes the enormous amounts of financial aid and political support extended to the opposition grouping in Nicaragua; and calls upon the United States Government to give an assurance to the world community that it will not revert to a campaign of destabilisation when the Sandinistas return to power.'.

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