Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 14:55:58 +0100

From: Bureau du Tibet

Organization: Bureau du Tibet - Paris

To: Multiple recipients of list TSG-L

MARCH 7 & 8, 1998 EVENTS IN EUROPE

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ETSG INFORMATION FOR TSG LIST ONLY

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8th European TSG Conference

Saturday, March 7, 1998

Paris, FRANCE

The Office of Tibet, Paris is organising the 8th European TSG Conference on Saturday, March 7, 1998. All European TSG should have already received preliminary notice about this conference along with information regarding the Sunday's commemoration. However, if your TSG has not received any information on the ETSGC, please contact the Office of Tibet, Paris immediately.(see below)

Mr. TC Tethong, Minister for International Relations will convene the ETSGC.

The 8th ETSGC will be a strategy meeting for leaders of TSGs to:

- follow up on the actions agreed upon at the 2nd International Tibet Support Group Conference held in Bonn, Germany in 1996

- establish some commong goals and objectives for pro-Tibet political and educational activities

- better coordinate European initiaitves and activities on behalf of Tibet

The 7th ETSGC hosted by the Norwegian Tibet Comite was held in Oslo, Norway in 1994.

Registration material for the ETSGC will be sent by the end of this week.

Contact coordinates:

Bureau du Tibet

84, bd Adolphe Pinard

75014 Paris

Tel: +33-1-46-56-54-53

Fax: +33-1-46-56-08-18

Email:

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PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION OF COMMEMORATION IS REQUESTED

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3rd European Demonstration

Sunday, March 8, 1998

Paris, FRANCE

Place du Trocadero

(Metro station: Trocadero)

12noon (gathering)

1:00pm - 4:00pm (speeches & march)

On Sunday, March 8, 1998, Tibetans and Tibet supporters in Europe will gather in Paris, France to commemorate the 1959 March 10 Tibetan people's uprising in Lhasa and to support His Holiness the Dalai Lama's proposal for dialogue with the Chinese government.

This third gathering follows two previous European level demonstrations held in Brussels, 1996 (coordinated by Transnational Radical Party) and Geneva, 1997 (coordinated by Tibet Bureau & Transnational Radical Party). With participants coming from all corners of Europe, continued success is predicted by organizers of this year's commemoration.

Local Coordinator:

Tibet 98 (association representing 50 Tibet support groups - Tibetan, cultural, political, humanitarian & religious - based in France)

Participants:

Tibetans and Tibet supporters from: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland.............

For information, contact:

Tibet 98, 84 bd Adolphe Pinard, 75014 Paris

Tel: +33-1-40-92-90-90; Fax: +33-1-40-91-19-19

Email: