Parliament Workbench
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Standard Motion · S2M-01240 · Session 2

Chinese Army Invite to Military Tattoo

Lodged by Chris Ballance Green Lodged 30 Apr 2004 13 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament deplores the invitation to the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to attend the Edinburgh Military Tattoo in view of continuing human rights abuses carried out by the Chinese Government, especially in Tibet, and calls on the organisers of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo to retract, as a matter of urgency, the invitation to the band from the Chinese People's Liberation Army to perform given that the invitation will be interpreted as proof that the Scottish people do not care about, or take notice of, the continued repression of the Tibetan and the Chinese people by the PLA at the instigation of the Chinese authorities.

Vote

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Supporters

13 MSPs

Green 6 SSP 3 SNP 2 Lab 1 LD 1

Show all 13 supporters by party

Green 6

SSP 3

SNP 2

Lab 1

LD 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2M-01240 by reference.