AUNG SAN SUU KYI'S 62nd BIRTHDAY

Early day motion 1868, tabled 9 July 2007 by John Bercow (Conservative). Signed by 79 members.

That this House hopes that Aung San Suu Kyi celebrated a happy 62nd birthday on 19th June; notes that on that day she had spent a total of eleven years and 238 days in detention; expresses concern that she is allowed no visitors and that her telephone has been cut off and her post intercepted; observes that, despite repeated calls for her release by the United Nations, the Government, the Association of South-East Asian Nations and the European Union, there is currently no prospect of her being released; and calls on the Prime Minister to make democratic reform in Burma a foreign policy priority.

Signatures by party: Labour 40, Liberal Democrat 18, Conservative 16, Scottish National Party 2, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, DUP 1.