Text of report by the Polish news agency PAP

Warsaw, 16th June: The activity of the Parliamentary Forum for Tibet is being given among the informal reasons for the cancellation of Chinese Premier Li Peng's visit to Poland [next week]. The Forum's chairman, Deputy Andtzei Potocki (UW Freedom Union) says it has not undertaken any activity hostile towards the People's Republic of China [PRC] and thinks that this was only one of the pretexts for calling off Li Peng's visit. The Parliamentary Forum for Tibet is an extra-statutory body. It was set up in May of last year and has 17 deputies and senators as members, chiefly from the UW and the UP [Labour Union]. In Potocki's opinion, the Forum "has not undertaken any activity hostile towards the PRC, and its only object of concern is the observance of human rights in Tibet". The Forum has twice sent representatives to world parliamentary conventions in support of Tibet. They were present at the Dalai Lama's visit to Poland. They consulted the Foreign Ministry on the scope of their activity Potocki recalled th

at this kind of institution also exists in countries which Premier Li Peng has visited, eg in Germany. In [Potocki's] opinion, the existence of the Forum can only be a pretext for the cancellation of the Chinese premier's visit, and the true reason is the fear of mass demonstrations against the violation of human rights by the PRC authorities.