CHINESE ARMY INVITATION TO MILITARY TATTOO

Early day motion 1506, tabled 13 July 2004 by Alan Simpson (Labour). Signed by 31 members.

That this House deplores the invitation to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to attend the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in view of continuing human rights abuses carried out by the Chinese Government, especially in Tibet; and calls on the organisers of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo to retract, as a matter of urgency, the invitation to the band from the Chinese People's Liberation Army to perform given that the invitation will be interpreted as proof that the British people do not care about, or take notice of, the continued repression of the Tibetan and the Chinese people by the PLA at the instigation of the Chinese authorities.

Signatures by party: Labour 22, Liberal Democrat 4, Conservative 2, Labour/Co-operative 2, Plaid Cymru 1.