Sri Lanka (No. 2)

EDM number 935 in 2008-09, proposed by Virendra Kumar Sharma on 02/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Asia and Military operations.

That this House notes with grave concern the deepening crisis in Sri Lanka, in which more than 2,000 lives have been lost since January alone; laments the dearth of coverage in the Western media of the crisis and thus the failure of the media to tell the world what is happening in Sri Lanka; further notes the extensive and appropriate coverage of the conflict in Gaza in which estimates suggest 1,300 lives were lost; highlights the meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in London on Wednesday 4 March; and calls on the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group to suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth until a ceasefire has been established and its government grants a UN monitoring mission unfettered access to the country, allows international aid agencies access to the Vanni region and resumes peace negotiations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.