Sri Lanka

EDM number 355 in 1990-91, proposed by Dafydd Wigley on 24/01/1991.

That this House welcomes the recent ceasefire initiative launched by the Liberation Tigers; further notes the initial positive response of the Sri Lankan Government to the proposals; hopes that this initiative is followed by immediate dialogue with the participants regarding themselves as equal partners in the dialogue process, so that the bloody conflict of the last decade can be brought to a permanent end; calls on Her Majesty's Government to endorse such a dialogue, in conjunction with the Indian Government; and further calls on Her Majesty's Government to show its practical support for peace in Sri Lanka by ending all direct and indirect military aid to the Sri Lankan Government; and extends its congratulations to Mr S Mahrasingam and the Tamil Action Committee for the annual fast held on Human Rights Day outside the Department of Overseas Development on 10th December 1990, which highlighted the violence in Sri Lanka and the plight of the Tamil people.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.