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PEAN PARLIAMENT CAN ONLY SERVE TO REVEAL THE IGNORANCE AND PREJU- DICE OF THOSE WHO CONCOCTED IT.
IMPORTANCE TO
5) THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE ATTACH GREAT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINED AND STEADY RELATIONS OF FRIENDSHIP AND COOPERATION WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND ITS MEMBER STATES. THE CHINESE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS HIGHLY VALUES THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS ALREADY ESTABLISHED WITH THE EUROPEAN PARLI- AMENT AND HAS MADE POSITIVE EFFORTS TO ENHANCE AND DEVELOP FRIENDLY EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE TWO SIDES. THE CHINESE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS HAD PLANS TO SEND A NPC DELEGATION HEADED BY VICE CHAIRMAN HUANG HUA TO VISIT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT UPON INVITATION IN THE COMING NOVEMBER. HOWEVER, IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE- MENTIONED ACTION TAKEN BY THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN GROSSLY INTERFERING IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND MALICIOUSLY ATTACKING CHINA, THE SAID VISIT HAS TO BE POSTPONED THROUGH THE FAULT OF NO ONE BUT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.
6) SOME INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT HAVE THREATENED TO INVITE DALAI TO VISIT THE PARLIAMENT, AND DALAI ON HIS PART HAS DECLARED THAT HE WILL PAY AN 1 OFFICIAL VISIT' TO SOME WEST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES EARLY NEXT YEAR. IT MUST BE POINTED OUT IN ALL SERIOUSNESS THAT DALAI IS NOT AN ORDINARY RELIGIOUS FIGURE BUT A POLITICAL EXILE. WHAT DALAI WAS DOING IN THE UNITED STATES LAST SEPTEMBER AND THE SUBSEQUENT RIOT IN LHASA STAGED BY A HANDFUL OF SEPARATISTS AT THE INSTIGATION OF THE DALAI CLIQUES HAVE ELOQUENTLY SHOWN THAT THEY HAVE BEEN ENGAGED IN PLANNED AND PREMEDIATED ACTIVITIES AIMED AT SPLITTING CHINA. THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS FIRMLY OPPOSED TO ANY COUNTRY ATTEMPTING TO PRO- VIDE, IN ANY FORM, THE DALAI CLIQUE WITH FORUM OR VENUE FOR HIS ACTIVITIES AIMED AT SPLITTING CHINA. ANY PERMISSION FROM THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT OR MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES TO DALAI FOR HIS VISIT AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES THERE AIMED AT SABOTAGING CHINA'S UNITY WOULD ONLY BE REGARDED AS UNFRIENDLY ACTS AGAINST CHINA. IT IS THEREFORE HOPED THAT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES WILL HANDLE THIS ISSUE IN ALL SERIOUSNESS AND PREVENT DALAI FROM IMPAIRING THE GOOD RELATIONS EXISTING BETWEEN OUR TWO SIDES.
YOUR EXCELLENCY IS KINDLY REQUESTED TO CONVEY THE POSITION OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT TO THE COUNCIL LATED INSTITUTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AS GOVERNMENTS OF ALL ITS MEMBER STATES.
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