Source: CTK news agency, Prague

Excerpts from report by the Czech news agency CTK

Prague, 11th February: The demand that the Czech parliament approve a resolution condemning Chinese occupation of Tibet is contained in a statement signed by 17 Czech independent initiatives given to CTK today.

The signatories demand that the Foreign Ministry and the parliamentary foreign committee react to violations of human rights in China. They praise the Czech Foreign Ministry's official condemnation of the verdict passed on the Chinese human rights fighter, Wei Jingsheng.

"We point out that human rights are indivisible and that overlooking their violation anywhere in the world subsequently results in the violation of human rights in this country as well," the statement says...

The statement was signed by the Movement of Civic Solidarity and Tolerance (HOST), the Duha (Rainbow) Movement, Greenpeace, Deti zeme (Children of the Earth), the Helsinki Civic Assembly, the People in Need and others.