Parliamentary search - Sri Lanka and the Commonwealth

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

490 c25-49WH

Session

2008-09

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall

Proceeding contributions

Andrew George | 490 c26WH (Link to this contribution) Not all of us have joined the debate because we have a large Tamil community within our constituency...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c25-6WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. The work of the Tamil community in highlighting a cause to which pe...

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Lee Scott | 490 c25WH (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the efforts of the Tamil community in Britain to raise humanitarian ai...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, as would all hon. Members in the Chamber—their constituents have br...

Tom Brake | 490 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I would like to draw the hon. Lady's attention to a meeting that was held in my constituency a coupl...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c25WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the chance to debate an important matter. What is happening at the moment in Sri L...

Ed Davey | 490 c27WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a powerful comment on how the Tamil people in the so-called safe zones are havin...

Andrew Pelling | 490 c27WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Lady on securing the debate. She is far too self-deprecating about the work ...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c27WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, who has worked hard on this issue. The UNHRC reports""dire humanit...

Simon Hughes | 490 c26WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for initiating the debate. She will know that some of us have been arguing thi...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c26-7WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is correct. As we know, the situation is escalating, and every day more people ar...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c26WH (Link to this contribution) I commend the hon. Gentleman for his contribution to the debate and this cause. I am not as worthy a...

Andrew Love | 490 c48WH (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for the forthright way in which he is presenting the Government's case. I als...

Bill Rammell | 490 c48-9WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has anticipated my very next sentence, because I was going to highlight the fact that...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c27-8WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman, and I am sure that he has seen many videos and DVDs of people in th...

Andrew Dismore | 490 c28-9WH (Link to this contribution) I assure my hon. Friend that I do not have a drug problem, despite what the Sri Lankan Government sa...

Tom Brake | 490 c28WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is being very generous in giving way. I hope that when the Sri Lankan high commission ...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c28WH (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree, but many Members, perhaps including the hon. Gentleman, have been abused and ins...

Andrew Dismore | 490 c38-9WH (Link to this contribution) I first spoke about the problems in Sri Lanka in this very Chamber, during the debate about the Fore...

Stephen Pound | 490 c39WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend talks about there being an absence of a political solution. Does he agree that for at...

Speaker | 490 c36WH (Link to this contribution) Order. Four hon. Members wish to speak, and the winding-up speeches should start in about 20 minutes...

Simon Hughes | 490 c36-8WH (Link to this contribution) I shall keep to that, Mr. Atkinson, and I am very grateful to the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden...

Ed Davey | 490 c41-2WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) on securing the debate and...

John McDonnell | 490 c42WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not being present at the start of the debate because I was at a constituency meeting...

Andrew Dismore | 490 c39WH (Link to this contribution) Unfortunately, nationalism throughout the world has played its part in causing such conflicts. We h...

Stephen Hammond | 490 c40-1WH (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to comment in this important debate. The message that will have go...

Joan Ryan | 490 c35-6WH (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman, who makes my case for me, and I agree with him. Suspension from the Comm...

James Duddridge | 490 c35WH (Link to this contribution) Hon. Members have made a powerful case for suspending Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth, and there has...

Simon Hughes | 490 c43WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend knows that I agree with him, and he may like to inquire of the Minister what represen...

Ed Davey | 490 c43WH (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. The Minister should tell us today what diplomatic efforts Her Majesty's Gov...

Joan Ryan | 490 c43WH (Link to this contribution) I am concerned about the tone of some of the comments. I want to put it on record that although I wa...

Ed Davey | 490 c43-4WH (Link to this contribution) Not only do I pay tribute to the hon. Lady, I have paid tribute to the Prime Minister and the Foreig...

Keith Simpson | 490 c44-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) on raising this debate, an...

Andrew Dismore | 490 c45WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Simpson | 490 c45-6WH (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I will not, because I have very little time left. The first qu...

Ed Davey | 490 c42WH (Link to this contribution) The inquiry should not be long and drawn out. It should take place urgently—within days and weeks, n...

Ed Davey | 490 c43WH (Link to this contribution) I disagree with the hon. Gentleman. We would send a huge and important signal from Britain, the US a...

Mike Gapes | 490 c42WH (Link to this contribution) I apologise for arriving half way through the winding-up speeches. I share the deep frustration that...

Joan Ryan | 490 c33-5WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) on not only secu...

Joan Ryan | 490 c31WH (Link to this contribution) On the Commonwealth issue, does my hon. Friend think that it is appropriate—I am sure that she does ...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c31WH (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is right. She has worked as hard as anybody on the issue—in fact, we worked tog...

Speaker | 490 c31WH (Link to this contribution) Order. I inform hon. Members that we normally start the wind-ups about midday. I see that about six ...

Lee Scott | 490 c32-3WH (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain McDonagh) on securing the debate. It...

Andrew George | 490 c30WH (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is making a strong case. Throughout the conflict, but especially at this stage, indepe...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c30WH (Link to this contribution) Yes, I agree that all sides should be included in any negotiations. As The Sunday Times reported thi...

Stephen Pound | 490 c30WH (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to interrupt my hon. Friend's flow. She mentioned that the Government of Sri Lanka have r...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c30-1WH (Link to this contribution) I agree with my hon. Friend, but the unfortunate thing is that the Sri Lankan Government are tremend...

Siobhain McDonagh | 490 c29-30WH (Link to this contribution) Amnesty also says:""There has been no proper accountability for the killings that have happened in t...

Andrew Dismore | 490 c46WH (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

Keith Simpson | 490 c46WH (Link to this contribution) Please, I have just two more points to make. The proposal to send in a UK special envoy, the right ...

Bill Rammell | 490 c46-8WH (Link to this contribution) May I start by genuinely congratulating my hon. Friend the Member for Mitcham and Morden (Siobhain M...

Subjects

Armed conflict

Commonwealth

Development aid

Human rights

India

Politics and government

Press freedom

UN resolutions

Sri Lanka

Tamils

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Ceasefires

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