Award Of The Pingat Jasa Malaysia Medal

EDM number 107 in 2005-06, proposed by Jeffrey Donaldson on 17/05/2005.

That this House welcomes the announcement by the Malaysian Government that it wishes to award the Pingat Jasa Malaysia medal to all Commonwealth ex-service personnel who served in either the emergency or the confrontation in that country between 1957 and 1966; recalls that a number of British Army regiments, including the Royal Ulster Rifles, served in Borneo during that period together with other elements of the United Kingdom Armed Forces; notes that the Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister has discussed the award of the medal with the Right honourable Member for Blackburn, the Foreign Secretary; and calls on the Government to permit British ex-service personnel to receive this medal as recognition of their valiant service to the Crown and the people of Malaysia.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.