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    You are at:Home»Tibet: Pressure on China to resume dialogue with Dalai Lama’s envoys

    Tibet: Pressure on China to resume dialogue with Dalai Lama’s envoys

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    By Sarah Akel on 25 March 2009 Uncategorized

    20/03/2009

    A Group of Nobel Prize Laureates, leading human rights activists and Members of Parliament from several countries joined an appeal promoted by the Nonviolent Radical Party calling on China to resume dialogue with the Envoys of the Dalai Lama.

    Supporters of the appeal include Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Máiread Corrigan-Maguire, former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Gijs de Vries, former EU Commissioner Emma Bonino and leading parliamentarians from Italy, France, Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, Cambodia and Kosovo.

    The appeal calls on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to seize the opportunity provided by a hearing, organized by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament on the situation of talks between Chinese Authorities and the Envoys of the Dalai Lama, as a first opportunity to re-open direct talks between the two parties. The hearing will take place on March 31st at the European Parliament, in Brussels.

    So far, only the Tibetan side decided to be represented at the meeting by Mr. Kelsang-Gyaltsen, a Special Envoy of HH the Dalai Lama. The Chinese government has not yet replied positively to the invitation issued by the European Parliament.

    For more information, please contact the office of Marco Cappato at the European Parliament 003222847288 or

    marco.cappato(at)europarl.europa.eu.

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    FULL TEXT OF THE APPEAL AND LIST OF SUPPORTERS

    We undersigned

    considering

    Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s statement “China is ready to dialogue with the Dalai Lama”, made during a press conference in Beijing on March 13, that hopefully opens the door to a more positive mutual relationship;
    that the European Parliament adopted by overwhelming majority a resolution calling for the re-opening of direct talks, considering the “Memorandum for Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People of November 2008 as a basis for substantive discussion leading towards positive, meaningful change in Tibet, consistent with the principles outlined in the Constitution and laws of the People’s Republic of China”;
    that the Commission on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament decided to put on the agenda of the meeting of March 31 a hearing on the situation of talks between Chinese Authorities and the Envoys of the Dalai Lama;
    that both the Representatives of the People’s Republic of China and of the Dalai Lama have been invited to take part in the said hearing;
    that this is a first opportunity to re-open a dialogue, firmly hoped by both the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and the Dalai Lama;
    that the People’s Republic of China have not yet replied positively to the friendly and trustful invitation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament;
    call on the Government of the People’s Republic of China to seize the positive momentum and dispatch representatives for the hearing of March 31, as the Tibetan authorities did, as a first step to re-open a dialogue between Beijing and the Tibetan Government in-exile, regarded by the international community and the European Union with much interest and respect. This dialogue should be finalized to the affirmation of Peace as well as democratic and civil progress in the People’s Republic of China and a genuine autonomy for the Tibetan populations.

    Mart Laar

    Former Prime Minister of Estonia

    Máiread Corrigan-Maguire

    Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    Sir Richard Roberts

    Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

    Martin Perl

    Nobel Laureate in Physics

    Gijs de Vries

    Member of the Board of the European Council on Foreign Relations and former EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator

    Wei Jingsheng

    1996 Sakharov Prize Laureate

    Emma Bonino

    Vice President of the Italian Senate
    Former European Commissioner

    Osvaldo Payá

    2002 Sakharov Prize Laureate

    Alaksandar Milinkievič

    2006 Sakharov Prize Laureate

    Hélène Flautre

    Chairman of the Human Rights Subcommittee
    Member of the European Parliament

    Göran Lindblad

    President Political Affairs Committee
    Member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

    Mart Nutt

    Member of the Parliament of Estonia

    Peeter Tulviste

    Member of the Parliament of Estonia

    Leoluca Orlando

    Member of the Italian Parliament

    Hans Rothenberg

    Member of the Parliament of Sweden

    László Iván

    Member of the Hungarian Parliament

    Son Chhay

    Member of the Cambodian Parliament

    Behxhet Brajshori

    Member of the Parliament of Kosovo

    Daniel Sachs

    Chief Executive Officer PROVENTUS, Sweden

    Vo Van Ai

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    Penelope Faulkner

    Vice-President, Vietnam Committee on Human Rights

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