To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if Her Majesty's Government will make representations to the Government of Sri Lanka to accept an immediate ceasefire in the civil war and a return to negotiations with mediation by the United Nations Secretary General.

Since the latest outbreak of fighting the Sri Lankan Government have twice proposed a ceasefire. The Tamil terrorists "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam" have rejected these proposals on both occasions. In the circumstances, representations would not be appropriate.