MALDIVES

Motion Text

That this House, seeing the developing situation in the Maldives, urges President Gayoom and all sides to work for urgent, peaceful democratisation; abhors the detention and torture of political prisoners as documented by Amnesty International; urges the full recognition of the Maldivian Democratic Party; and urges the British Government to strengthen its representations on the matter and British and other companies present in the Maldives to refrain from any activity that impedes the growth of democracy.