Access For Humanitarian Agencies To Rakhine State In Burma

EDM number 58 in 2015-16, proposed by Valerie Vaz on 01/06/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, International development, Religion and faith communities and United Nations.

That this House expresses its concern at the number of Rohingya Muslims from Burma and Bangladesh who have fled their countries since the start of the year, risking their lives in order to reach Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand; calls on the Government to make clear to the Burmese government the need to address the reasons that people feel forced to do so; and further calls on the Government to ask the UN Secretary-General to take a personal lead in negotiating with the Burmese government to allow access for humanitarian agencies to Rakhine State.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.