FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Moscow, October 26, 1995

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The draft motion of the State Duma "On Situation In Tibet" prepared and presented by Karakys ARAKCHAA, MP ("New Regional Policy" group), was tabled by her for discussion on today's plenary session of Russian parliament's lower house.

After the open voting the proposal to put on discussion the draft motion "On Situation In Tibet" was not accepted, getting 103 votes FOR while 3 ABSTENTIONS and 344 MPs who didn't take part in the voting. FOR this proposal voted 27 members of Agrarian Party group, 25 of "Russia's Choice" group, 1 of Democratic Party group, 9 of "Russia's Women" group, 7 of Communist Party group, 1 of Liberal Democratic Party (Zhirinovskij) group, 3 of Russian Unity and Concordance Party group, 2 of "JaBLoko" group, 8 of "New Regional Policy" group, 6 of "Russia" group, 5 of "Stability" group and 9 independent MPs.

After the voting the following declaration was made by Mrs Arakchaa:

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Unfortunately, in the Duma there was formed a stabile majority of members who don't want to confront the government on this issue - the government which considers the relations with China as extremely important and which is ready to shut its eyes to the human rights violations in this country.>>

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