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Tibet: Pressure on China to resume dialogue with Dalai Lama's envoys
March 20, 2009
A Group of Nobel Prize Laureates, leading human rights activists and Members of Parliament from several
countries joined an appeal promoted by the Nonviolent Radical Party calling on China to resume dialogue with the Envoys of
the Dalai Lama.
Supporters of the appeal include Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng,
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gijs
de Vries, former EU Commissioner Emma Bonino and leading parliamentarians from Italy, France,
Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, Cambodia and Kosovo.
The appeal calls on the Government of the People's Republic of China
to seize the opportunity provided by a hearing, organized by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the
situation of talks between Chinese Authorities and the Envoys of the Dalai Lama, as a first opportunity to
re-open direct talks between the two parties. The hearing will take place on March 31st at the European Parliament, in
Brussels.
So far, only the Tibetan side decided to be represented at the meeting by Mr. Kelsang-Gyaltsen, a Special
Envoy of HH the Dalai Lama. The Chinese government has not yet replied positively to the invitation issued
by the European Parliament.
For more information, please contact the office of Marco
Cappato at the European Parliament 003222847288 or marco.cappato(at)europarl.europa.eu.
FULL
TEXT OF THE APPEAL AND LIST OF SUPPORTERS
We undersigned
considering - Prime Minister Wen
Jiabao's statement "China is ready to dialogue with the Dalai Lama", made during a press conference in Beijing on March 13,
that hopefully opens the door to a more positive mutual relationship;
- that the European Parliament adopted by
overwhelming majority a resolution calling for the re-opening of direct talks, considering the "Memorandum for Genuine
Autonomy for the Tibetan People of November 2008 as a basis for substantive discussion leading towards positive, meaningful
change in Tibet, consistent with the principles outlined in the Constitution and laws of the People’s Republic of
China";
- that the Commission on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament decided to put on the agenda of the
meeting of March 31 a hearing on the situation of talks between Chinese Authorities and the Envoys of the Dalai
Lama;
- that both the Representatives of the People's Republic of China and of the Dalai Lama have been invited to
take part in the said hearing;
- that this is a first opportunity to re-open a dialogue, firmly hoped by both the
Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and the Dalai Lama;
- that the People's Republic of China have not yet replied
positively to the friendly and trustful invitation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament;
call on the Government of the People's Republic of China to seize the positive momentum and dispatch
representatives for the hearing of March 31, as the Tibetan authorities did, as a first step to re-open a dialogue between
Beijing and the Tibetan Government in-exile, regarded by the international community and the European Union with much
interest and respect. This dialogue should be finalized to the affirmation of Peace as well as democratic and civil progress
in the People's Republic of China and a genuine autonomy for the Tibetan populations.
Mart
Laar Former Prime Minister of Estonia
Máiread Corrigan-Maguire Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate
Sir Richard Roberts Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Martin
Perl Nobel Laureate in Physics
Gijs de Vries Member of the Board of the European
Council on Foreign Relations and former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
Wei Jingsheng 1996
Sakharov Prize Laureate
Emma Bonino Vice President of the Italian Senate Former European
Commissioner
Osvaldo Payá 2002 Sakharov Prize Laureate
Alaksandar
Milinkievič 2006 Sakharov Prize Laureate
Hélène Flautre Chairman of the Human Rights
Subcommittee Member of the European Parliament
Göran Lindblad President Political Affairs
Committee Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mart Nutt Member of
the Parliament of Estonia
Peeter Tulviste Member of the Parliament of
Estonia
Leoluca Orlando Member of the Italian Parliament
Hans
Rothenberg Member of the Parliament of Sweden
László Iván Member of the Hungarian
Parliament
Son Chhay Member of the Cambodian Parliament
Behxhet
Brajshori Member of the Parliament of Kosovo
Daniel Sachs Chief Executive Officer
PROVENTUS, Sweden
Vo Van Ai President, Quê Me: Action for Democracy in
Vietnam Penelope Faulkner Vice-President, Vietnam Committee on Human
Rights
Vanida Thephsouvanh Mouvement Lao pour les Droits de l'Homme
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