>From Marina Sisani

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION OF MARCH 10 IN BRUSSELS AND WASHINGTON. ADHESIONS FROM PARTIES, ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS.

PARTICIPATIONS FROM ALL OVER EUROPE. 35 MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT UNDERSIGNED THE POLITICAL PLATFORM.

For immediate release

Brussels, February 23, 1996. On the coming March 10, thousands of citizens from all over Europe, will stage a nonviolent march through the streets of Brussels for the freedom of Tibet in order to urge the governments and the international institutions to begin negotiations without pre-conditions on the Tibetan issue between the legitimate Tibetan government of the Dalai Lama and Beijing.

The citywide march promoted by the Tibet Intergroup to the European Parliament, the Tibetan communities in Europe, the European support groups and the Transnational Radical Party, will begin at the Chinese Embassy and end in front of the European Parliament where speeches are scheduled by personalities of the European political world and by Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche, president of the Tibetan Parliament in exile.

We have received the first adhesions to this initiative of organizations, political parties and cultural organizations from many European countries: the Basque Parliament has officially adhered and Azpiazu, its President, will march with the demonstrators on March 10. Among the adhesions received, we restate that from Italy are those of the ARCI and of WWF-Italy; from Hungary that of Fidesz (Young Democrats League); from Vojvodina, that of the VMDK (Vojvodina Hungarians League); from Austria, the "Liberales Forum" and the Greens; from Croatia, the Croatian Popular Party and the Fiume Democratic Alliance; from Ukraine, the Liberal Party. Up to date, there are already 35 Parliamentarians who have undersigned the political platform of the demonstration, members of the groups EPU, EDN, ESP, ERA, ELDR, EPP, Greens, and Independents.

Furthermore, many delegations of peoples not represented at the United Nations, have announced their presence in the streets of Brussels: East Turkestans, South Moluccans, Assyrians, West Papuasians, Abkazis, Circassians and Tartars of Crimea will march with their traditional costumes as a sign of solidarity with the struggle of the Tibetan people.

European Committee for the 10 of March