Dear Shanshan,

It was a pleasure for me to receive your e-mail. And, of course it would be a pleasure for me to do something in order to make Jingsheng's idea becoming possible. The only problem I have is that, after the meeting we had with Wei in New York, last november, I had no more opportunity to have news from him nor to receive an answer to my invitation to come in Italy and to the European Parliament.

In the meantime he has come twice in the European Parliament. But I had no opportunity to meet him.

All this, in a very bad context reguarding our common fight for democracy in China ...

Remaining at your disposal,

Sincererly yours,

Olivier

Here next a letter I recently send to your brother.

To the attention of Wei Jingsheng

Brussels, March 10, 1998

Dear Wei,

since our meeting of last November in New York where, on behalf of the Transnational Radical Party, I invited you to come to Brussels and Rome, I followed, through the press, many initiatives you have undertaken. Among those initiatives some conferences in Paris and London. A visit to the European Parliament in Brussels ...

Few days ago I knew that you were about to return to the European Parliament and to hold some conferences. The same way, quite by chance, I came to know that you'd be planning to attend the UN Human Rights Commission.

As far as we are concerned we have continued campaigning, either good or bad, a little bit left alone, for your candidacy to the Nobel Peace Prize, we have continued our guerilla inside the European Parliament in favour of a EU resolution in Geneva (with no results, unfortunetly) and other things.

You'd easily understand that, before such a long series of "coincidences", it's hard for me not to conclude that you have made choices that do not allow common initiatives.

That seems to me deeply sad, especially because I have really appreciated the lucidity and the determination of your positions and notably the ones which you have recently expressed in the article published in Le Monde. Position I completely share but position that - I'm unfortunetly convinced - less and less people, especially in the governmental and parlamentarians spheres, are sharing.

Best regards,

Olivier Dupuis