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TO IMMEDIATE FCO AMENDED DISTRIBUTION 9 OCT 87

TELNO 1726

OF 080928Z OCTOBER 1987

INFO IMMEDIATE HONG KONG, KATHMANDU, WASHINGTON, NEW DELHI INFO SAVING SHANGHAI

MY MIPT:

TIBET.

1. AT THE MFA'S REGULAR WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE ON 7 OCTOBER, A SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE UNITED STATES SENATE ON 6 OCTOBER ON THE ''TIBETAN QUESTION'' ''CONFOUNDED BLACK AND WHITE AND CONFUSED RIGHT AND WRONG AND WAS ANOTHER SERIOUS INCIDENT ENGINEERED BY A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE CONGRESS.'

THE SPOKESMAN ADDED

WE STRONGLY DEMAND THAT THE UNITED STATES IMMEDIATELY STOPS ALL ITS INTERFERENCE IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS IN THE OVERALL INTERESTS OF SAFEGUARDING THE FRIENDLY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES.

2. IN REPLY TO QUESTIONS, THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF FOREIGNERS TOOK PART IN ''THE RIOT AIMED AT UNDERMINING

THE UNITY OF CHINA AND OF ITS NATIONALITIES. NO FOREIGNER HAD BEEN ARRESTED.'' THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT FOREIGNERS WERE NOT ADVISED

TO GO THERE (TO TIBET) AT PRESENT.''

3. AT THE SAME PRESS CONFERENCE, A SENIOR OFFICIAL OF THE STATE NATIONALITY AFFARIS COMMISSION SAID THAT THE PANCHEN LAMA HAD EXPRESSED 'GREAT INDIGNATION'' OVER THE RIOT IN LHASA ON 1 OCTOBER. HE DESCRIBED AS NONSENSE THE STATEMENT BY THE DALAI LAMA ''AND SOME FOREIGNERS'' THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAD KILLED 1 MILLION TIBETANS AND RESETTLED 7 MILLION PEOPLE OF THE HAN NATIONALITY IN TIBET. HE CLAIMED THAT 19 POLICEMEN WERE BADLY INJURED DURING THE RIOT ON 1 OCTOBER BECAUSE THE POLICE HAD STRICTLY OBSERVED ORDERS NOT TO OPEN FIRE ON THE RIOTERS.

4. ON 7 OCTOBER, AN EDITORIAL IN THE PEOPLES DAILY SAID THAT SOME CONGRESSMEN OF THE UNITED STATES WERE VIOLATING CHINESE SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERFERING IN CHINA'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS. IT WARNED THAT, THESE CONGRESSMEN CONTINUED TO INTERFERE IN CHINA'S INTERNAL

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