The following product of business is a debate on movement S6M-01003, in the name of Angus Robertson, on sustaining the people of Afghanistan. Individuals, consisting of any person viewing this that desires to do so, can register their offers of support online.The SRC is working closely with COSLA and also the neighborhood authorities that are liable for suiting as well as supporting new arrivals. I invite the opportunity to debate what we can do currently to sustain the individuals of Afghanistan.
The following item of organization is a dispute on motion S6M-01003, in the name of Angus Robertson, on supporting the people of Afghanistan. I will talk today about the situation in Afghanistan and especially concerning what Scotland can do to support the Covering individuals. People, including anyone viewing this that wants to do so, can register their offers of assistance online.The SRC is functioning closely with COSLA and the local authorities that are liable for suiting and supporting new arrivals. I welcome the chance to question what we can do now to sustain the people of Afghanistan. It demonstrates a basic absence of understanding of the crucial nature of international aid as well as assistance in Afghanistan and throughout the globe.In that respect, the Lib Dem amendment’s call for the UK Government to lift the total cap on the number of people we ought to be supporting is vital and requires urgent action.I give thanks to the Scottish Refugee Council for the work that it has actually done as well as for its excellent briefing, which highlights the need for a modification of instructions from the UK Government as well as calls on all of us to share duty in our actions to address the range of the scenario as well as the number of Covering evacuees that need our support. Throughout the UK, we have actually seen the benefits that refugees bring to our areas when they are allowed to get involved in our culture. Anything brief of that would certainly be a total moral failing as well as a clear demonstration that people can not trust the UK when they need its support the a lot of.
In that respect, the Lib Dem change’s call for the UK Government to lift the overall cap on the number of people we need to be supporting is crucial as well as requires immediate action.I say thanks to the Scottish Evacuee Council for the job that it has done and also for its superb briefing, which highlights the requirement for a modification of direction from the UK Government as well as calls on all of us to share obligation in our activities to address the scale of the scenario and the number of Afghan refugees that require our assistance. Across the UK, we have experienced the advantages that refugees bring to our neighborhoods when they are permitted to participate in our society. My amendment establishes out just how I would such as the UK and Scottish Federal governments to go still even more. I ask the Scottish Federal government to guarantee that it is ready to assist in cross-party, cross-sector and also cross-parliament job to persuade the UK Federal government to lift its aspirations. Anything brief of that would be a complete ethical failing as well as a clear presentation that people can not rely on the UK when they require its assistance the a lot of.Unfortunately, the area in Baghlan district is presently back in Taliban control for the time being. What is a risk-free route out of Afghanistan for my component’s brother? He plainly can not go back to Afghanistan if, God willing, he makes it bent on safety to begin with. He has household in Glasgow. What has he done to be under risk? He was supporting the Afghan national police to bring legislation and order, peace, security and also safety and security to the country; now, his life is in hazard. Ought to he make it to the UK, it would be an outrage to see him criminalised under the UK Government’s Nationality and also Borders Costs– Maggie Chapman’s amendment highlights the issue. The experience of my component’s brother also highlights the reality that the Taliban might manage the majority of the country however it does not manage it all. Panjshir province remains to hold up versus it, and also Ahmad Massoud, child of Covering nationwide hero Ahmad Shah Massoud, leads that resistance.Shah Massoud held
off both the Soviets as well as the Taliban prior to his assassination in 2001. Today’s motion talks regarding identifying “the lead role globally that the UK Government must play in ensuring that help remains to get to those who require it most”. Because context, I welcome the ₤ 250,000 mankind emergency fund that the Scottish Federal government introduced to support those in fantastic requirement, which is, as the closet assistant mentioned, an added economic commitment to that which the Scottish individuals already make to the UK’s aid budget plan with tax obligation contributions. Of training course, help to Afghanistan needs to go to as lots of people as feasible that remain in wonderful risk and also our aid companies need to be secure. The UK and the worldwide community likewise need to ensure that aid goes, when possible, to all parts of Afghanistan that remain in need of support, not simply those locations under Taliban control.I comprehend from Covering constituents that the Taliban have successfully enclosed routes in and out of Panjshir province and also the individuals there might require altruistic support. In Scotland, we require to guarantee that all 32 regional authorities are supported and also empowered to take in Afghan households that are getting away physical violence. I know that there will certainly be much conversation about how much cash the UK Federal government will certainly supply to sustain our councils, and I do not wish to obtain associated with that debate this afternoon. We ought to not fail to remember, nevertheless, that the UK spent a reported ₤ 38 billion on its participation in Afghanistan. Health and wellness, education and learning, housing as well as wider area support come with a price however, frankly, giving them is the right thing to do morally.How much assistance will the UK Federal government put up for them? Together with those of the USA, the UK’s promises of protecting civils rights and supporting a complimentary, democratic as well as open culture in Afghanistan, where the rights of women, children as well as minorities are respected, have thawed away drastically and also with startling rate. Funding the altruistic fallout to ensure that local authorities across Britain can play their part in supporting Afghanistan close friends is the very least that the UK Government might do.In Scotland, much of the co-ordination needs to be led by the Scottish Federal government and also partner firms. We have a honored document of incorporating neighborhoods well.
Such assimilation does not occur by accident– it takes cautious preparation and prep work. I really hope that Scotland’s Covering neighborhood will be involved in that planning and also preparation along with in the shipment of assistance. I was pleased to hear that the cabinet secretary has already had a roundtable meeting with numerous public companions, along with with area organisations such as Glasgow Afghan United. The strain put on Glasgow Afghan United over the past few weeks has been immense. Commonly, the volunteers supporting the broader community also have actually enjoyed ones in jeopardy in Afghanistan at this difficult time.Their work has spiralled, however the sensible as well as psychological assistance provided has been essential for lots of family members. Such organisations will be vital in sustaining the Afghan brand-new Scots households who will resolve below in Scotland. The integration networks such as the Maryhill Assimilation Network and also the Scottish Evacuee Council are additionally crucial. I was pleased to find out about the impressive as well as fantastic work that the Scottish Refugee Council has currently embarked on. We need to guarantee that those organisations are not just part of support plans as well as preparations yet are resourced to deliver that crucial assistance on the ground. I make certain that the Scottish Federal government will take that seriously. We need to not take too lightly the psychological as well as emotional support that is supplied by such organisations.I have not mentioned the number of families the UK and Scotland should take. It goes without saying, the existing numbers are commonly accepted to be grossly inadequate. When the UK Federal government looks at the numbers of Afghan households as well as the requirements for clearing up in the UK, it should look generously at humanitarian factors to sustain family reunification for so several Scots Covering families whose liked ones are in risk right currently in Afghanistan. They remain in fantastic risk. Scots Afghans are apprehensive regarding their bros, sis, dads as well as larger family members. I stand in solidarity with my components who are Covering as well as Afghan Scots today. As a Parliament, we should collaborate to do all that we can to assist as many individuals as possible to make a new life in Scotland that is complimentary as well as safe and also in which they can understand the desires and aspirations that have actually been so cruelly seized from them in Afghanistan.I welcome the fact that the Scottish Government has chosen to have a very early debate on such an essential topic. There have actually been some excellent and important speeches, consisting of the previous one by Bob Doris. Antiwar.com reporter, Daniel Larison, has actually stated: “Since U.S. pressures have actually lastly exited Afghanistan, some American hawks are already flustering for the government to feed interior problem by backing a brand-new revolt and wage economic warfare
on the country … The United States has formerly replied to military defeat by causing economic penalty on the former enemy. The United States trade embargo on Vietnam impaired the nation’s economic healing as well as added to the mass exodus of refugees from the country starting in the late 1970s.”We currently understand that there is a significant refugee situation following the US-led exit from Afghanistan.Inflicting cumulative penalty on a country will drive also more people to run away to various other countries. The worldwide technique should be to acknowledge that Afghanistan stays a poor country that remains heavily depending on outdoors help. Any kind of interruption to the flow of that aid will certainly have significant effects. All of us in the Parliament are anxious regarding the setting of females and also women as well as LGBT individuals who are left under Taliban guideline. As Sarah Boyack states, we should not neglect them. It is a massive civils rights dilemma and a geopolitical problem in the area. We did not require the disturbance of our Foreign Assistant, Dominic Raab, offering a dreadful performance the other day when attempting to respond to inquiries on his role. Now, we must concentrate on what we can do. Lisa Nandy has actually defined the scenario as”The greatest international plan falling short in a generation “. The scenes from Kabul flight terminal are stunning. The discharge process from Afghanistan has been, as well as remains to be, at best, a disarray as well as, at worst, harmful. Cautions were considered that there would certainly be a bomb blast outside Kabul airport terminal last week, yet still, regretfully, 92 individuals died.Their determination to risk their lives to reach the flight terminal demonstrates the despair felt by several Afghans, who see no future on their own under Taliban rule. That can forget the footage of hundreds of people at Kabul airport terminal running along with a United States Flying force plane as it gathered rate on the path, with a number of guys sticking on to the side? Traumatic videos posted on social networks appeared to show two individuals falling to their fatalities from the US airplane after it took off.One was an Afghan teenager, Zaki Anwari– a 19-year-old footballer that bet the national young people football group. It is an absolute misfortune that his life was interrupted in such terrible circumstances. The shadow Residence Assistant, Nick Thomas-Symonds, noted that “The appalling mishandling of the collapse in Afghanistan by Traditionalist Ministers has left huge numbers of lives in danger and also a potential humanitarian dilemma”and claimed that the lack of preparing to get individuals out is totally unforgivable.In the past week, the UK Government has actually revealed that it will certainly create risk-free courses for Coverings to come to the UK, and also I whole-heartedly invite that. We still do not recognize exactly how those intended risk-free courses will certainly be opened up, and many people obviously fear for their
lives in relationship to being able to access those paths. In the previous fortnight, 15,000 Afghans have gotten here in the UK, 8,000 of whom are previous British Civil servant. Those who were functioning for the UK Government were generated under the Covering relocations as well as help plan, so they will certainly get uncertain as opposed to short-lived entrust to continue to be, and also that is to be invited. As has been stated, under the Citizenship as well as Boundaries Costs as well as current migration regulations, Afghans that attempt to get away with what are certainly not safe courses
on boats will be immediately rejected and also disqualified.It would be useful for Traditional associates in specific to add their voices to highlight the severity of that, if we are serious concerning giving risk-free passage as well as sanctuary for Afghans that are trying to get out of the country. It appears up until now that those who were considered in danger have been flown out, however those who have not been helping the UK Government will certainly have the typical long haul to have their applications thought about, and also they will certainly not have the ability to work in the meanwhile. There is rather a whole lot to take into consideration in regards to the immigration guidelines that will put on people whom we wish to help. I wish to elevate some questions around the current Syrian refugee resettlement plan, which the priest mentioned.It is wonderful to hear that 18 councils have come forward, however in the past some councils have actually complained that economic support for the system has actually not been as good as it must be. I would such as some confidences on that particular, although I invite the news of the emergency fund. I share the view of the First Minister and the preacher, Angus Robertson, that we in Scotland should make a big dedication to resolve Covering refugees. That would certainly be humanitarian, and also it is something that Scotland has actually carried out in the past. It would certainly be handy to have some clarity on the numbers that we wish to take. I appreciate that there is a discussion over the number of of the 5,000 refugees the Scottish Federal government wants to take, and around the numbers that it would certainly such as to take beyond that, with regard to funding. We need financial backing, as we can see that difficulties might or else arise.Bob Doris chatted eloquently concerning Glasgow, which has a rather large Covering community, as well as there will certainly be a much bigger Covering population around the country. Those Afghans who have settled in Scotland have actually been absolutely impressive in providing support, and it would certainly be worth taking into consideration whether several of that money could go in the direction of making sure that they can offer recommendations as well as assistance to people who concern Scotland, because they themselves understand what it resembles. It may be quite valuable to give them accessibility to some financing as component of the entire programme. Afghanistan goes to a critical point in its existence. In truth, really little progression towards a truly contemporary democratic society as we would acknowledge it has actually been transformed the previous twenty years. For example, under the initial Taliban regimen, 2.3 percent of ladies attended additional college; by this year, the number for girls was still just 13.2 per cent, as well as it was 37 percent for boys.Views continue to be extremely conventional, with 85 percent of Afghans thinking that adulterous women– not men– must be stoned to death, as well as 79 per cent supporting the death sentence for
apostasy. It is easy, therefore, to see why the Taliban were able to protect the assistance of a big piece of Afghanistan’s populace in country areas specifically. The country was ruined by greater than four years of battle, from the 1979 Soviet invasion onwards. The Soviets triggered disastrous damages to Covering culture, killing an approximated overall of between 600,000 as well as 2 million individuals and destroying half the country’s 24,000 villages, with a quarter of the population taking off abroad. After they left, complying with an expensive guerrilla war by radicalised mujaheddin backed by the west, China and also the Gulf states, the customer state that was left in location still made it through for a year longer than the Soviet Union itself. We can contrast that with the almost instant collapse of the US-backed Covering Government kleptocracy, which occurred over a few days.The relative tranquility over the last few years, secured by the commitment and also sacrifices of UK and also US pressures, and union forces from Canada to Croatia, covered up widespread corruption, tribal patronage and also aggressive policing of political elections. Billions of bucks in army and development help were taken, warlords were kept in area as well as a small fortunate elite supervised. Generals declared the salaries of non-existent soldiers while falling short to feed those that were actually under their command. Such was the rush to leave Afghanistan that the US leader of Bagram air base overlooked even to inform his Covering counterpart that he was off. Amazingly, DNA as well as biometric information on those who benefited the US and its allies were left to the Taliban.Black Hawk helicopters, 22,000 Humvees and even Cessna ground-attack airplane were abandoned, although without extra parts they will not last; they can probably be traded following settlements as the west tries to limit expanding Chinese influence. Teacher Michael Burleigh’s publication” Little Battles, Far Places: The Genesis of the Modern Globe 1945-65 “exposes the surprising ineptitude people post-war diplomacy, which awkwardness continues even more than half a century later on. In 2019, growth and also humanitarian help, ranging from money spent in the economic situation, education, counterterrorism as well as narcotics regulate to disaster relief and
refugee assistance, totaled up to$779 million in a country of 39 million. To put that in context, it is less than NHS Ayrshire as well as Arran’s budget for that year to offer 367,000 individuals. Most of the aid offered over 20 years remained in the form of military equipment and incomes. Completely, international aid represented almost 78 per cent of Afghanistan’s public expense in 2019. That cash is now lost to a seriously bad economy, as well as three quarters of the population does not have sufficient to consume as wintertime approaches.Humanitarian aid is of vital relevance as well as needs to be supplied straight to the individuals, without preconditions, if the Taliban allow it. Added aid should be certainly depend on just how the Taliban reward girls, minorities as well as ladies, on whether they will enable some of Afghanistan’s people to leave and also on the country not coming to be, once more, a place for the launch of terrorist strikes. The impact of the Taliban’s restored control of Afghanistan will certainly reach far beyond Afghanistan’s borders unless another concern that is of direct relevance to Scotland and also the west is dealt with: opium.The Taliban case that they will certainly function to remove poppy farming, the practice of which was nearly eradicated twenty years back. Should we think the Taliban when an approximated three million people in Afghanistan are now employed in opium manufacturing as well as distribution? Three of the previous 4 years have actually observed document opium manufacturing in Afghanistan, with cultivation soaring by 37 per cent in 2015. According to the United Nations 2021 globe drug report, almost 93 percent of villages in the country’s southern area grow opium poppies, and also all village leaders in Helmand reported opium poppy cultivation to the UN.Cutting the seed capsules of mature poppies pays a minimum of twice as much as harvesting pistachios and significantly more than operating in building. Earnings from heroin as well as opium supplies the Taliban with an estimated 60 percent of their income, which is very important for the Taliban to preserve– they might also intend to expand that. In a nation with 40 per cent unemployment, farmers living hand to mouth receive development repayments for expanding poppies however not other crops. Can they be blamed for growing poppies, or does the issue lie with greed, international need as well as a system that incentivises growing unlawful crops? There is money to be made from the 10 per cent cultivation tax that is collected from poppy farmers by the Taliban, as well as medication labs that generate heroin go through taxes, as well, with quotes of the Taliban’s annual earnings from that varying as much as US $400 million. The United Nations Office on Drugs and also Criminal offense approximates that 90 percent of the world’s heroin and also opium supply originates in Afghanistan, contributing 11 percent to its gross domestic product.Although it is challenging to identify precise numbers, less open to conflict is where the Covering heroin winds up. Here in Scotland, another 1,339 lives were lost to drug overdoses last year, a lot of which were to heroin. The Scottish Government is working to deal with the trouble in several methods. However, managing a supply of heroin by dealing with importation is incredibly difficult. The National Criminal offense Firm works with companions on every step of the trafficking course. The Taliban regime is absolutely remiss, it would certainly be incorrect to disregard the contribution of various other actors to the prospering heroin market. There is a reason that the manufacturing of opium as well as heroin had the ability to skyrocket in the manner in which it corrected the past 15 years while there was an Afghan Federal government in place that was not the Taliban. Corrupt Afghan Federal government officials not just enabled the profession to prosper for many years; they proactively supported and benefited it, while farming appeared to go relatively unrestricted by western forces.It is difficult to think that the Taliban will crack down, but that should be one of the needs made by the worldwide area. The Taliban wish to settle their program, however dealing with them is a tough job, provided their ideological background as well as the truth that a much more fanatical fundamentalist pressure, Islamic State-Khorasan District, is waiting in the wings need to they show up as well moderate to their very own fans. Afghanistan faces a bleak future yet, for its individuals and also for the safety and also protection of our own, we can not desert it, and we need to work with every person we can to do our finest for the people of Afghanistan.The present dilemma in Afghanistan is both frustrating as well as multilayered, yet I will start by revealing my solidarity with all those that are enduring or who are attempting to flee to safety, as well as my inmost compassions most likely to those that have lost loved ones in this catastrophe. More than 18 million individuals within the nation require humanitarian
help, their sufferings increased both by the Covid pandemic and by environment change-induced droughts. The Workplace of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees records that more than 550,000 Covering people– even more than half a million– have been forced to leave their residences since the start of this year alone, including in the 3 million who are already displaced inside Afghanistan and also the 2.6 million refugees elsewhere, almost 90 percent of whom remain in Pakistan and Iran. The UK as well as its allies birth an excellent responsibility, not just to the Afghan people that have actually dealt with our military pressures, thereby placing themselves and also their families at increased danger, but in regard to long-running damages and injustices sustained by the entire Afghan country. Afghanistan was the resistant play area for the supposed wonderful game of the 19th century that was callously played between the Russian and also british realms. It was once more exploited as a proxy for the chilly battle in the 1980s, when the United States advised rebels to eliminate”to the last Afghan.”At the very start of our present century, its individuals experienced the pompousness as well as foolhardiness of Bush as well as Blair’s enthusiastic intrusion and also its awful aftermath.Clearly, the UK is complicit in the unsuccessful attempt at country building in Afghanistan. We must stand as well as acknowledge our duty in developing this crisis and also approve as well as act on our responsibility to Afghans taking off problem and oppression. The UK Federal government’s current commitment to absorb 20,000 Afghans is worthless. We have to do even more. As has already been discussed this afternoon, the UK Federal government’s cut to the aid spending plan suggests that we are falling short in our responsibility to those in demand around the globe, and also it is especially disgraceful when considering the dependence of those looking for sanctuary in refugee camps and elsewhere, as well as of those who are inside displaced, on foreign help. I include my voice to the phone calls that have actually been made this afternoon to offer those who are already in the UK indefinite leave to continue to be. The invasion of Afghanistan, like the later war in Iraq, was part of the desperate neo-conservative look for a”great battle,”in which the resources of the worldwide south are seized for extractive commercialism, with the battle impersonated promoting human rights.In Afghanistan, there was unsupported claims regarding females’s civil liberties– but more Covering children as well as women have actually been eliminated and also injured throughout the initial six months of 2021 than in any complete year considering that records of civilian casualties started to be kept. That year, by the method, was 2009, eight years after the intrusion. That suggests something of the method which imperialists have ignored the lives as well as health and wellbeing of one of the most vulnerable in Afghanistan. The United States drone strike of simply a few days earlier, which was reported to have killed numerous kids, might well be an additional indicator of that very same contempt.The Scottish people– those individuals who, this summer, stood in solidarity to avoid the expulsion of their neighbors and also good friends– will acknowledge this as an issue not simply of charity and compassion however of justice. They will desire us, as their reps, to do everything we potentially can to sustain those in requirement, both those within Afghanistan as well as evacuees. They will certainly anticipate to see the worldwide altruistic fund used in this situation, in order to be able to invite Afghan refugees to their cities as well as communities and to sustain the job as well as experience of civil culture organisations. I say thanks to the closet assistant for the news earlier this afternoon of ₤ 250,000 for the fund.I resemble his comments as well as
those of Sarah Boyack as well as others about the function that civil society organisations and regional authorities played during the Syrian resettlement plan, as well as I know that they are all set to step up once more. The Scottish people will wish to see the Scottish Federal government utilizing its moral impact not only to advise international co-operation on humanitarian visas and also risk-free courses, however to bring around a discussion of respect as well as honesty. This crisis has revealed us in agonising as well as stark clarity just how frantically we need to make our own independent and humane immigration policy, as the instructions in which the UK Federal government is plummeting can be only a resource of pity for us.The Race as well as Borders Bill, which is currently at the board phase in the Home of Commons, is a straight as well as callous assault on the basic civil liberties of refugees.
Funding the altruistic after effects to ensure that neighborhood authorities throughout Britain can play their component in supporting Afghanistan close friends is the really least that the UK Government might do.In Scotland, much of the co-ordination has to be led by the Scottish Federal government and partner firms. When the UK Government looks at the numbers of Afghan families as well as the requirements for settling in the UK, it ought to look generously at humanitarian factors to support household reunification for so lots of Scots Afghan families whose enjoyed ones are in threat right now in Afghanistan. It is not tough, for that reason, to see why the Taliban were able to secure the assistance of a significant piece of Afghanistan’s populace in rural locations in particular. The impact of the Taliban’s renewed control of Afghanistan will certainly get to far beyond Afghanistan’s borders unless one more concern that is of straight relevance to Scotland and the west is resolved: opium.The Taliban case that they will certainly work to eliminate poppy farming, the method of which was almost eliminated 2 decades back. They will certainly want us, as their representatives, to do every little thing we potentially can to support those in need, both those within Afghanistan and also evacuees.As some participants will certainly be conscious, Linda Norgrove, from the Island of Lewis in my constituency, devoted and inevitably offered her life to aiding individuals in Afghanistan to reconstruct their neighborhoods. I strongly welcome the Scottish Federal government calling this discussion, as well as the effective payments from across the political range in support of human legal rights and the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan could now be reported to be the graveyard of realms as soon as again yet, for lots of individuals, it was their residence.
It is right that the Scottish
Parliament is disputing Afghanistan. That is a significant bundle of assistance, which includes ₤ 12 million to offer additional institution areas, ₤ 3 million to access the nationwide health service and up to 300 college scholarships.Let us not forget that the UK Government is likewise currently dedicating ₤ 200 million to the Afghanistan people resettlement scheme. As some members will certainly be mindful, Linda Norgrove, from the Isle of Lewis in my constituency, devoted as well as ultimately provided her life to aiding people in Afghanistan to rebuild their areas. I strongly welcome the Scottish Government calling this debate, as well as the effective payments from across the political range in support of human rights and the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan might currently be reported to be the graveyard of empires as soon as again however, for several individuals, it was their house.Do we just after that withhold all help as well as support from the individuals of Afghanistan as a fine for its imposed Federal government, or do we recognise that we still have a moral obligation to the people of Afghanistan, notwithstanding the actions of the subsequent Government? As Jackson Carlaw noted, the speeches have actually revealed effective concern for the lives as well as livelihoods of the individuals of Afghanistan, and also I say thanks to every participant who has added. The first is that amendment S6M-01003.2, in the name of Donald Cameron, which looks for to modify movement S6M-01003, in the name of Angus Robertson, on sustaining the individuals of Afghanistan, be concurred to.Are we concurred?
Do we simply after that hold back all aid and support from the individuals of Afghanistan as a penalty for its imposed Federal government, or do we recognise that we still have an ethical duty to the people of Afghanistan, regardless of the actions of the succeeding Government? I paid attention to Bob Doris, Katy Clark, Foysol Choudhury and Pam Gosal, that all spoke with passion regarding the individuals of Afghanistan and also our obligation, and I really hope that we accept that it is a collective duty. As Jackson Carlaw noted, the speeches have shown powerful concern for the lives as well as incomes of the people of Afghanistan, and also I thank every member who has added. Donald Cameron opened by talking of the value of our armed services and also paid homage to those that fought to bring freedom to Afghanistan, as well as I desire to share that view from participants on the Government benches as well as join him in that. The very first is that modification S6M-01003.2, in the name of Donald Cameron, which seeks to amend motion S6M-01003, in the name of Angus Robertson, on sustaining the individuals of Afghanistan, be agreed to.Are we agreed?