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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 12:08:45 -0800

From: Bhuchung Tsering International Campaign for Tibet

To: Multiple recipients of list TSG-L (Tibet Support Group List)

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February 6, 1997

Senators Urge Albright to press for China Resolution & Release of Ngawang Choephel

Sixteen Senators have written to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright today urging her to "redouble efforts to seek adoption of a resolution on human rights in China and Tibet" in the UN Human Rights Commission and to raise the case of Ngawang Choephel when she meets with Chinese leaders in Beijing later this month. The letter was initiated by the two senators from Vermont, Patrick Leahy and James Jeffords.

Those who co-signed the letter are:

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Craig Thomas

Edward M. Kennedy

Alfonse M.D'Amato

John Kerry

Olympia J. Snowe

J. Robert Kerrey

Joseph Lieberman

Paul Wellstone

Thomas Daschle

Jack Reed

Herb Kohl

Russel Feingold

Richard Durbin