To the kind attention of Mr Tempa Tsering

Minister for Home Affairs

Tibetan Government in exile

Brussels, September 21, 2000

Dear Tempa,

First of all I apologize for being late in answering to your last message. Our fight for not being expulsed from the UN is still going on. The next meeting of the NGO Committee of the UN (who have to prepare a recomandation for the Assembly) will take place on September 27 and we have no clear signal at the moment that the Russians want to change their mind.

At the European Parliament we have been in a rush for three weeks now concerning the question of the candidacy of Ngawang Sangdrol for the Sakharov Prize 2000. The things are not going bad. 120 MEPs are already supporting this candidacy. At the moment I would tell we have 20% of chances to succeed. Lets hope !

Generaly speaking I'm more and more convinced that we have to push hard on the national parliaments (beginning with Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, ) on the question of passing resolutions similar to the one passed last July by the European Parliament. In this view we would like to organize at the European Parliament next 7 and 8 December a working meeting with about 200 Tibet activists in order to understand how to coordinate the efforts at a european level. I have asked Prof. Samdhong Rinpoche to be our honour guest.

All the best and friendly yours,

Olivier