BURMA (No. 2)

Early day motion 478, tabled 7 March 2000 by Mike Hancock (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 32 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Labour 25, Liberal Democrat 6, Conservative 1.