Elections In Guatemala

EDM number 270 in 1990-91, proposed by Tony Lloyd on 19/12/1990.

That this House notes the presidential elections taking place in Guatemala; welcomes the fact that this is the first time that an elected president has handed power over to an elected successor; recognises that the army is still a power beyond democratic control and widely held to be responsible for deaths, torture and wide-scale human rights abuse; applauds the series of talks held between the Church, business leaders and other sectors of Guatemalan society with the guerilla movement, the URNG; believes that the armed forces must become party to these talks if a genuinely peaceful route to sustainable democracy is to take place; and calls upon the international community to bring pressure to bear to this end.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs.