Right Of The Kashmiri People To Self-Determination

EDM number 692 in 1992-93, proposed by Roger Godsiff on 28/10/1992.

That this House records that on 27th October 1947 Indian troops occupied most of the state of Jammu and Kashmir and that 45 years later those occupying forces still remain; calls on Her Majesty's Government to vigorously support the United Nations Resolutions of 1948, 1949 and 1960 which upheld the rights of the Kashmiri people to self-determination through a United Nations supervised plebiscite thereby fulfilling the explicit commitment made to the people of Kashmir by Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India; expresses the gravest concern at the reports of human rights abuses in Kashmir; and urges Her Majesty's Government to take the lead in raising these matters in the United Nations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.