Mr Katsuhiko Oku

Early day motion 204, tabled 3 December 2003 by Huw Edwards (Labour). Signed by 119 members.

That this House expresses its deepest sympathy to the family of the Japanese Diplomat Mr Katsuhiko Oku who was killed in Iraq with a fellow diplomat Mr Masamori Inoue from the Japanese Embassy in Jordan and their driver Jerjis Sulaiman Zora while travelling to a reconstruction conference in Tikrit; notes that Mr Oku was serving in the Japanese Embassy in London and was known to the honourable and Right honourable members of the British-Japanese Parliamentary Group and to the Parliamentary Rugby Team for whom he helped organise a tour of Japan and against whom he played; and extends its condolences to His Excellency Ambassador Orita and members of the Embassy on the tragic loss of their colleague.

Signatures by party: Labour 83, Labour/Co-operative 12, Conservative 10, Liberal Democrat 10, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 2.