STATE OF ILLINOIS

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, Illinois has been chosen as a primary site for the U.S. Tibetan Resettlement Project. The project will help Tibetans resettle to Illinois and preserve Tibet's historical and cultural heritage; and

WHEREAS, on March 10, 1996, Tibetans throughout the world will gather to commemorate the 37th anniversary of the struggle for freedom and independence of their country; and

WHEREAS, in 1989, his Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, leader of the Tibetan people, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his continued efforts toward a peaceful resolution of the occupation of Tibet;

THEREFORE, I, Jim Edgar, Governor of the State of Illinois, hereby proclaim March 10, 1996, as TIBETAN DAY in Illinois.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State of Illinois to be affixed

Done at the Capital in the City of Springfield this seventh day of March in the Year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-six, and of the State of Illinois the one hundred and seventy-eight

Jim Edger

Governor