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FROM: R F Wye
Far Eastern Section Research Department OAB 2/126 273 5635
DATE: 21 February 1984
CC: Mr Morris, HKD
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Avriga Takon
THE EXAMPLE OF TIBET
1.
People's Daily of 4 January 1984 published ani article recounting how the late Chairman Mao Zedong had taken a personal interest in Tibet.
2.
The article contained the following summary of the 1951 Seventeen point agreement:
"i) Drive out imperialist aggressive forces from
Tibet; Tibet shall return to the big family of the motherland - the People's Republic of China; the local government of Tibet shall actively assist the People's Liberation Army to enter Tibet and to consolidate national defence. Tibetan troops will be reorganised by stages into the People's Liberation Army.
ii) Exercise national regional autonomy (minzu quyu zizhi) under the unified leadership of the Central People's Government.
iii) The Central People's Government shall conduct the centralised handling of all external affairs of the region of Tibet; and there will be peaceful co- existence with neighbouring countries and establishment and development of fair commercial and trading relations with them on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for territory and sovereignty.
iv)
Various reforms will have to be carried out. The local government of Tibet should carry out reforms of its own accord (zi dong), and when the people raise demands for reform they shall be settled by means of consultation with the leading personnel of Tibet.
v) To practise internal unity and integration among the Tibetan nationality, and especially unity between the Panchen and Dalai Lamas.
CONFIDENTIAT.