Township of Princeton

PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS, the United States Congress has enacted legislation declaring Tibet an occupied country whose true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in exile; and

WHEREAS, the United Nations Human Rights Subcommission has passed a resolution concerning the present threat to the cultural, religious and national identity of the Tibetan people; and

WHEREAS, the Clinton administration has made the renewal of China's Most Favored Nation trading status conditional upon significant progress towards the protection of Tibet's distinct religious and cultural heritage and the improvement of human rights in China and Tibet; and

WHEREAS, the ongoing suppression of human rights and freedom in Tibet must be the concern of all freedom-loving people everywhere; and

WHEREAS, Tibetans throughout the world recently gathered in their host countries to commemorate the Tibetan National Uprising against the Chinese occupation of their country and honor more than one million Tibetans who have died in their struggle for the independence of Tibet; and

WHEREAS, the new Tibetans in Princeton are to be congratulated on rapidly becoming self supporting, contributing residents of our town,

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Michele L. Tuck, Mayor of the Township of Princeton, County of Mercer, State of New Jersey do hereby proclaim April 11, 1996 as

TIBETAN INDEPENDENCE DAY

in Princeton Township and urge the citizens of our community to welcome those people who will be arriving in our town who are marching from Washington, DC to the United Nations in New York in support of Tibet's independence.

GIVEN UNDER MY HAND AND SEAL THIS 11TH DAY OF APRIL, 1996.

Michele L. Tuck, Mayor