Burma (No. 2)

EDM number 478 in 1999-00, proposed by Mike Hancock on 07/03/2000.

That this House notes that Burma is one of the world's largest producers and transporters of illicit opium; notes that the military regime's record on human rights is appalling; notes that the International Olympic Committee's consent for an ethnically unrepresentative team to compete in the Sydney 2000 Olympiad adds credence to the regime; calls upon the IOC to ban Burma from the Olympics in Sydney, 2000; also calls for more pressure to be brought to bear upon other major sports events that sanitise those participant nations which are increasingly involved in the hard drugs trade; and calls for an expansion in education in the UK about Golden Triangle hard drugs and human rights abuses.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.