| 1) |
We urge and expect the Government of the United
Kingdom to recognise Tibet's present status as a separate nation,
not a province of China. |
| 2) |
We urge and expect HMG to recognise that Tibet
is an occupied country, and to press the United Nations to implement
its own resolutions on Tibet of 1959, 1961, and 1965 which call
for Respect for the fundamental human rights of the Tibetan
people including their rights to self determination and
their distinctive cultural and religious life. Further, we urge
and expect HMG, as the sole European power to have had military,
political and diplomatic relations with the independent nation
of Tibet before the
Chinese invasion, to lead the way in urging the UN to recognise
that Tibet is an occupied country. |
| 3) |
We urge and expect HMG to recognise H.H. the Dalai
Lama as the head of state of the Tibetan people. |
| 4) |
We urge and expect HMG to press the government
of the People's
Republic of China to enter into direct negotiations with His
Holiness
the Dalai Lama , or his representatives, without delay or pre
conditions. |
| 5) |
We urge and expect HMG to support the call for
a UN Special Rapporteur to be sent to Tibet to assess the human
rights situation there;
and a UN Referendum in Tibet to assess the wishes of the Tibetan
people with regard to inclusion within, or independence from,
China. |
| 6) |
In the interim, we urge and expect HMG to condemn
human rights abuses in Tibet and to take no part in funding
birth control policies [including sterilisation and enforced
abortion] which in Tibet amount to deliberate population control. |
| 7) |
In this connection, we urge and expect HMG to
condemn the transfer of Han Chinese to ethnic Tibet and to take
no part in funding any project that favours the Han population
at the expense of the Tibetan population. |
| 8) |
Arising from 1 and 2 above , we urge HMG to press
the UN to accord Tibetans refugee status as subjects of a state
separate from China |
| 9) |
We urge and expect HMG to stop selling arms to
China in contravention of the Consolidated E.U. and National
Arms Export Licensing Criteria and against the spirit of the
European Embargo. |
| 10) |
We expect HMG to ensure that the policing of peaceful
demonstrations against China's policies in Tibet are neutral,
respect democratic rights and are not subject to diplomatic
or economic pressure from China. |
| 11) |
We urge and expect HMG to condemn the apartheid
regime in Tibet that treats Tibetans as a minority in their
own land and which discriminates against them in the use of
their language, in education, in the practice of their religion,
and in employment opportunities. |
| 12) |
We urge and expect HMG to prevent the import of
goods made in
labour camps [laogai] throughout China and Tibet. |
| 13) |
We urge and expect HMG to press the government
of the PRC to respect the rights of religious groups within
the PRC and especially the rights of Tibetan Buddhists, and
to cease interfering in the religious life of Tibetans by manipulation
of the system of incarnate lamas [including the continued imprisonment
of the 11th Panchen Lama], the banning of photographs of HH
the Dalai Lama, and the punishment of monks and nuns for refusing
to denounce the Dalai Lama. |
| 14) |
We urge and expect HMG to insist
that UK firms consult the Tibetan
government in exile before investing in Tibet |
