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AIDS crisis will touch everyone

16 January 2003

This Thursday evening, an Edinburgh audience will hear the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa describe how a terrible epidemic is besieging a continent. Read more...

Weapons Inspectors must be given time

31 January 2003

Gavin Strang MP told a meeting of East Edinburgh and Musselburgh Constituency Labour party in Portobello last night (Thursday) that it would be wrong to launch military action in Iraq before United Nations weapons inspectors had had time to do their work. Read more...

Musselburgh Parkway - Gavin Strang MP writes to the SRA

5 February 2003

Gavin Strang MP has written to Richard Bowker, Chair of the Strategic Rail Authority, putting the case for a Parkway station at Musselburgh. Read more...

Iraq

11 March 2003 - Article by Gavin Strang for The Speaker

As I write the eyes of the world are on United Nations in New York. In a fast moving situation, we watch to see whether the international community can resolve the current crisis over Iraq. Read more...

Iraq

18 March 2003 - Comment by Gavin Strang for the Musselburgh News

Nobody doubts that the Iraqi regime is guilty of atrocities. We have been reminded of the war between Iraq and Iran and the use of chemical weapons supplied by companies based in the West. Nor do we forget the use of chemical weapons against the Kurds in Northern Iraq. Read more...

Iraq

24 March 2003 - Comment by Gavin Strang for The Speaker

In a comment Gavin Strang said this week: ‘I deeply regret that military action has been started in Iraq at this time. I admire and support our armed forces now engaged in Iraq, and hope that their operations will be completed with minimal casualties on both sides.’ Read more...

Panic fades but the epidemic goes on

28 November 2003 - an article by Gavin Strang MP in The Herald

HIV in Scotland - that was back in the 1980s wasn't it? "Don't die of ignorance" and Edinburgh shooting galleries of drug misusers come to mind - but we sorted that one out, didn't we? Read more...

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