NEW YORK, Jan 21 (AFP) - Fifty-nine Hollywood personalities have writen to President Bill Clinton urging him to seek a resolution on China at a March meeting of the UN Human Rights Commission, Human Rights Watch/Asia said Tuesday.

"This is the appropriate international forum to hold China accountable for its international human rights obligations," the letter said.

"We hope that your administration will take the lead in working with other governments to begin now actively circulating and promoting a resolution on China at the UN Human Rights Commission."

Human Rights Watch/Asia said China was already lobbying to prevent any resolution criticizing its human rights record at the March 10-April 18 annual meeting in Geneva.

It said the Clinton administration had yet to take action to draft a resolution or to lobby other governments on the 53-member commission.

"Thus far, the administration seems willing to settle for a token effort at Geneva, dragging its feet on the kind of high-level lobbying that needed to make a serious, multilateral push," said Sidney Jones, the human rights group's executive director.

The group said that despite "a well-documented pattern of grave and systematic abuse of human rights record" the Chinese government has never been censured by the UN Human Rights Commission.

In the letter to Clinton, the Hollywood personalities also express concern over what they called China's attempt to impose worldwide censorship with any artistic production "that does not meet with its approval, including the feature film on the Dalai Lama being produced by the Walt Disney Company."

China has put pressure on Disney not to make the movie, called "Kundun," about the Tibetan spiritual leader whose non-violent campaign to preserve Tibetan Buddhism and oppose China's annexation of his Himalayan homeland has annoyed Beijing for decades.

The letter, sent January 14, was signed by 59 Hollywood personalities, including Harrison Ford, Gregory Peck, Sidney Pollack, Oliver Stone and Barbra Streisand.