Published by World Tibet Network News - Thursday, August 21, 1997BERN, Aug 20 (AFP) - A Swiss delegation left here Wednesday on a 10-day fact-finding mission to Tibet, the foreign affairs ministry said here.
The mission comes in response to an invitation by Beijing and comprises three parliamentarians, a specialist on Chinese law and two foreign ministry diplomats.
The invitation was made to Swiss foreign affairs Minister Flavio Cotti in September by Li Ruihuan, chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference who was visiting Switzerland at the time.
Swiss human rights experts from the foreign affairs ministry paid a first-ever official visit to Tibet in December 1991.
China is regularly critized for human rights violations in Tibet, which it took over in 1951.
