STRASBOURG, March 14 (AFP) - The European Parliament backed Thursday a call by exiled Tibetan spiritual ruler the Dalai Lama for negotiations on the future of Tibet, which it said was colonised and occupied by China.

The parliament also urged Beijing to give an official and positive response to the Dalai Lama's proposals, made Monday on the 38th anniversary of the failed uprising against Chinese rule.

Condemning continued human rights violations by the Chinese authorities in Tibet, the parliament called on European Union member states to have the question of "the occupation of Tibet and its decolonisation" on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly.

Thursday's resolution is almost guaranteed to anger China, which accuses the Dalai Lama of counter-revolution and attempting to "split the motherland."