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ELECTIONS IN BURMA

EDM (Early Day Motion) 682A1: tabled on 10 November 2015

Tabled in the 2015-16 session.

This motion has been signed by 6 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Jim Shannon on 09 November 2015. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

leave out 'and' to end and insert ', but further notes that 25 per cent of seats in the Burmese Parliament are reserved for the military and that ethnic groups such as the Rohingya remain persecuted and disenfranchised; and calls on the Government to immediately raise these concerns with the new Burmese authorities.'

Original motion text

That this House welcomes the democratic elections in Burma; congratulates Ms Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy on its success at the elections; looks forward to the return to a full democracy after years of military rule; and further notes that the Government offers moral and economic support and assistance to other new governments.