TNAG-1624-FCO40-2238-Relations-between-Hong-Kong-and-China-1987 — Page 46

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TO IMMEDIATE PEKING

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OF 31170OZ OCTOBER 87

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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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