Mr Speaker, I move without notice:
That the House -
1) notes that today marks 21 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989;
2) further notes that the Wall was constructed in August 1961 as a barrier to separate West and East Berlin in order to prevent the emigration and defection of citizens that characterised Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period;
3) recognises that the fall of the Wall marked the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new wave of democratisation across Eastern Europe;
4) further recognises the symbolic importance of this day, not only to the citizens of Berlin and Germany, but also to all those people who have ever had their freedoms curtailed by a government; and
5) acknowledges the significance of the collapse of the Wall as it embodies the principles of unity, freedom and democracy.
Agreed to.