TYC/INTERRUPTION OF HUNGER STRIKE TO THE FINISH

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) has made known that the hunger strike to the finish has been temporarily suspended in response to appeals by the Polish, American, Hungarian, Norwegian and Costa Rican governments and by the European Union, without counting the resolutions approved by the Australian, Canadian, Lithuanian and European Union parliaments and by the United States Congress.

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EP/RESOLUTIONS ON TIBET AND SALE OF ORGANS/PEKING REACTIONS

In the editorial of the "China Daily" of 19 May, Peking replies. The China Daily labels the two resolutions as "attacks against China" and as "deplorable obstacles to Sino-European relations". It adds, relative to the Tibet Resolution: "China will tolerate no action that seeks to impair its national integrity", while it proceeds to ignore the accusation of traffic in human organs, treating it as a "guileful fabrication".

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EP/CHINA/INTERVENTION DURING MEETING BY TRP SECRETARY

On 14 May, in Strasbourg, Olivier Dupuis (ARE Group) declared: "Madame Chairman, Vice President of the Commission, Dear Colleagues:

Our Parliament cannot fail to observe that its policy and its proposals are systematically rejected by the Council and by the Commission, with the exception of the positive collateral measures and initiatives of Commissioner Marin. We have received no response to our demand for the liberation of all political prisoners in Tibet, for the liberation of the Panchen Lama, for respect to be accorded human rights, for the establishment of a commission of inquiry, for the appointment of a senior European Union representative for Tibet, for negotiations between Tibet and China, etc. I believe that we could unhesitatingly attribute to Commissioner Brittan the words of Churchill -- paraphrasing slightly -- at the time of Fascism in Italy: "If I were Italian today, I would be a fascist." Sir Leon Brittan could say, like his colleague Churchill: "If I were Chinese today, I would be a Communist, or I would be a Nazi" -- which comes down to the same thing.

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TIEN AN MEN SQUARE/4 JUNE/RADICAL INITIATIVE

Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Radical member of the European Parliament, and Olivia Ratti, General Secretary of the Radical Group in the European Parliament, laid nine roses at Tien An Men Square on the occasion of the anniversary of the 4 June 1989 massacre.

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CHINA/PE DELEGATION

On 2 June, Gianfranco Dell'Alba, Radical member of the European Parliament, affirmed at the end of the EP delegation visit to China's National People's Congress: "No new agreement with the Chinese should be entered into if guarantees on human rights and resumption of the dialogue with the Dalai Lama are not assured."

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17 MAY/PANCHEN LAMA

Three years ago. on 17 May 1995, Gendhun Choekyi Nima, recognized as the eleventh Panchen Lama, was abducted by the Peking authorities. We remind you that a campaign sponsored by the Transnational Radical Party is still going on, urging people to send post cards to President Jiang Zemin to obtain the liberation of the Panchen Lama.

(Published by FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - Number 72 - 10 June, 1998)