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Sri Lanka

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

487 c1007-31;487 c1005-29 

Session

2008-09

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 487 c1014;487 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I remind hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a six-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches.

Andrew Pelling | 487 c1023;487 c1021 (Link to this contribution) What I recognise in this debate compared with the Adjournment debate that took place at the end of t...

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Keith Vaz | 487 c1022;487 c1020 (Link to this contribution) Is it not important that we should also examine the laws governing proscription, because some campai...

Lee Scott | 487 c1020-1;487 c1018-9 (Link to this contribution) I join the thanks to the right hon. Member for Enfield, North (Joan Ryan) and other members of the a...

Virendra Sharma | 487 c1021;487 c1019 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in this much needed debate. It gives me the...

Stephen Hammond | 487 c1019;487 c1017 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that we need to be very careful that any sanctions imposed do not ...

Andrew Dismore | 487 c1018-9;487 c1016-7 (Link to this contribution) Since the end of last year, the eyes of the world have been on Gaza and southern Israel. There have ...

Ed Davey | 487 c1017;487 c1015 (Link to this contribution) I agree, but let me identify some of the challenges that the Government face in trying to secure tha...

Andrew George | 487 c1017;487 c1015 (Link to this contribution) One of the biggest obstacles, in my view, is Sri Lanka itself. On the last occasion when President R...

Keith Vaz | 487 c1017;487 c1015 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but it is also true that we are one of the big players in th...

Ed Davey | 487 c1016;487 c1014 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that we are speaking as one in the House today. The message to the Sri Lankan Governm...

Speaker | 487 c1016;487 c1014 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am afraid that the right hon. Lady's time is up.

Keith Vaz | 487 c1014;487 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for organising a meeting last week with the Prime Minister and the Fore...

Joan Ryan | 487 c1014-5;487 c1012-3 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree. We had two very useful meetings with the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary...

Joan Ryan | 487 c1015-6;487 c1013-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely share that concern. I have been subjected to exactly that approach myself, as has my hon....

Stephen Hammond | 487 c1013;487 c1011 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend is a military historian. It is important to be clear that, however the Sr...

Keith Simpson | 487 c1013;487 c1011 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Our history and the history of the world are littered with insta...

Joan Ryan | 487 c1014;487 c1012 (Link to this contribution) I start by welcoming the Minister's statement, which clearly indicated the Government's view and, I ...

Keith Simpson | 487 c1012-3;487 c1010-1 (Link to this contribution) I fear that the hon. Gentleman may well be right, but I also want to put on record, as I suspect did...

Keith Simpson | 487 c1012;487 c1010 (Link to this contribution) I agree absolutely with the right hon. Gentleman. Indeed, the history of the conflict is one of stop...

Andrew Love | 487 c1012;487 c1010 (Link to this contribution) Is not the fallacy in the Sri Lankan Government's position the fact that the legacy of enmity and bi...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1011;487 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but this must be the very last time, as I am conscious of the number of Members who...

Andrew George | 487 c1011;487 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful. I do not think all of us will have the opportunity to speak, so an intervention is po...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1011;487 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I agree that the culture of impunity is wrong. It is extraordinarily corrosive, and it is underminin...

Keith Vaz | 487 c1012;487 c1010 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the bipartisan approach that is being taken here today. That is different from the debates...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1011;487 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I agree emphatically that there cannot be a military solution, and that there needs to be a politica...

Keith Simpson | 487 c1012;487 c1010 (Link to this contribution) I concur with nearly everything the Minister said. One of the most depressing aspects of this debate...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1010;487 c1008 (Link to this contribution) There is a great deal of force in what my hon. Friend says. I referred earlier to the need for a pol...

Andrew Love | 487 c1011;487 c1009 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for being so helpful to hon. Members who are concerned about the situation in...

Jeremy Corbyn | 487 c1008;487 c1006 (Link to this contribution) I endorse what the Minister has said and welcome the strength of his call for a ceasefire. That said...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1008-9;487 c1006-7 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the European Union's generalised system of preferences plus is already...

Simon Hughes | 487 c1009;487 c1007 (Link to this contribution) The Minister's strong comments will be widely welcomed. So far, independent agencies have not been a...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1009-10;487 c1007-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree that humanitarian access is crucial. The Sri Lankan Government can be in no doubt about our ...

Philip Hollobone | 487 c1010;487 c1008 (Link to this contribution) Is it not important for the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the head of the Internationa...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1010;487 c1008 (Link to this contribution) The immediate priority is to allow the humanitarian agencies unfettered access, in order to bring re...

Phyllis Starkey | 487 c1010;487 c1008 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has described the climate of fear that exists throughout Sri Lanka. Has he impressed ...

Simon Hughes | 487 c1027-8;487 c1025-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. Many of us have been accused of being supporters of the Tamil Tigers, but I have never s...

Siobhain McDonagh | 487 c1028-9;487 c1026-7 (Link to this contribution) If fine words and knowledge could bring an end to the conflict, it would end after this debate. Ther...

Stephen Hammond | 487 c1029-30;487 c1027-8 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for this opportunity to say a few words. I will try to be brief so that the hon. Membe...

Andrew Love | 487 c1030-1;487 c1028-30 (Link to this contribution) May I add my voice to those heard from all parts of the House, including from the Minister, calling ...

Tom Brake | 487 c1024;487 c1022 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Neil Gerrard | 487 c1023-4;487 c1021-2 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to be brief, because it has become obvious that we are more or less unanimous on this is...

Peter Bottomley | 487 c1024-5;487 c1022-3 (Link to this contribution) Our task in the medium term is to try to help people come to terms with history. There is no way of ...

Neil Gerrard | 487 c1024;487 c1022 (Link to this contribution) I would rather not do so, because I want to be brief and allow other hon. Members to speak. In the ...

Simon Hughes | 487 c1026-7;487 c1024-5 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday was Sri Lanka's national day. It is a human tragedy almost beyond words that 61 years afte...

Phyllis Starkey | 487 c1025-6;487 c1023-4 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak on behalf of my constituents who are members of the Milton Keynes Tamil forum. I als...

Tom Brake | 487 c1027;487 c1025 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that hon. Members who speak out in this House on this issue do so to conde...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1007;487 c1005 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of Sri Lanka." I am pleased that we are ha...

Bill Rammell | 487 c1007-8;487 c1005-6 (Link to this contribution) We have repeatedly communicated our concerns to the Sri Lankan Government and we will continue to do...

Keith Vaz | 487 c1007;487 c1005 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Minister for that statement, which is a strong condemnation of the actions of the Sr...

Virendra Sharma | 487 c1022-3;487 c1020-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for that intervention and I agree with him. The Sri Lankan Government ...

Andrew Dismore | 487 c1020;487 c1018 (Link to this contribution) I find it very hard to see how the Tamil community could be hurt any more than by having 300,000 peo...

Lee Scott | 487 c1015;487 c1013 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady share my concern about the fact that whenever any Member on either side of ...

Ed Davey | 487 c1017-8;487 c1015-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and sometimes one feels powerless when such injustices are takin...

Subjects

Armed conflict Bombings Casualties Civilians Human rights Humanitarian aid Terrorism Sri Lanka Peace negotiations Ceasefires

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