UNCLASSIFIED
FM FCO
TO IMMEDIATE PEKING
TELNO 963
OF 31170OZ OCTOBER 87
289
072333
1749
UNCLASSIFIED
гнив огор
FOTA N
06 NOV 1987
INDEX.
AND TO IMMEDIATE UKREP BRUSSELS, WASHINGTON, NEW DELHI'
AND TO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG, KATHMANDU
Risk in Tibet.
MIPT: EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND TIBET
TEXT OF RESOLUTION ON TIBET ADOPTED BY EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN
PLENARY SESSION 15 OCTOBER AS FOLLOWS:
1.
RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN TIBET
THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
GRAVELY CONCERNED BY THE RECENT DISTURBANCES IN LHASA WHICH
ARE REPORTED TO HAVE CAUSED MANY DEATHS.
A.
8.
RECALLING THAT BOTH DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE CHINESE
OCCUPATION IN THE 1950S AND DURING THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION THE
TIBETAN RELIGION AND CULTURE WERE BRUTALLY REPRESSED.
C.
NOTING THE POLICY OF TOLERANCE WHICH HAS BEEN SHOWN IN RECENT
TIMES BY THE CHINESE AUTHORITIES TOWARDS THE TIBETAN BUDDHIST
RELIGION BY THE RECONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN MONASTERIES, AS WELL AS
THE GROWING PARTICIPATION OF TIBETANS IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF
THE AUTONOMOUS REGION.
HAVING REGARD TO THE NEW LEGAL PROVISIONS OF 1984 CONCERNING
THE STATUS OF AUTONOMOUS REGIONS IN CHINA.
D.
E.
CALLING ATTENTION TO THE DALAI LAMA'S FIVE-POINT PROGRAMME ON
THE STATUS OF TIBET AND THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE CHINESE AND
TIBETAN PEOPLE.
1
•
URGES THE CHINESE
TIBETANS TO RELIGIOUS
2 =
CONSIDERS THAT THE
WELL FORM THE BASIS OF
GOVERNMENT TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF THE
FREEDOM AND CULTURAL AUTONOMY.
DALAI LAMA'S FIVE-POINT PROGRAMME COULD
A SETTLEMENT.
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