M-384 Cambodia elections

That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) call for free and fair elections in Cambodia in June 2012; (b) condition further Canadian financial aid to the country on the Cambodian government’s compliance with international standards for democratic elections; (c) call on fellow signatory countries to the Paris Accords of 1991 to reaffirm the authority vested in, and strengthen the involvement of, the United Nations to prepare Cambodia for free and fair elections; (d) call for the dropping of all charges against exiled Opposition Leader Sam Rainsy, as well as the annulment of his politically-motivated sentence to ten years in prison; and (e) call on Cambodia to legislate appropriate electoral reforms to uphold the principles of democracy and the tenets of binding international agreements, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Cambodia is a State party.