Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak in this short debate today.

We can all be rightly proud of the internationalist outlook that has been a prominent part of our history, as Welsh people, over the years. Back in the early twentieth century, we had our Welsh League of United Nations, which campaigned for peace and international co-operation after the first world war. That is what drove the women’s peace petition of 1923, which was signed by more than 390,000 women, encouraging the United States to join and lead the League of Nations. Also, for over a century, the annual Urdd message of peace has been transmitted across the world, spreading a message of peace and goodwill from the children and young people of Wales to all parts and peoples of the globe.

These particular examples emerged in the pre-devolution era. And what they represented, in fact, was a means for Wales to speak collectively with one voice at a time when we didn’t have our own national parliament to articulate those feelings of international solidarity with others facing injustice and oppression across the world.