Motion for a resolution by Mrs Aglietta, Mr Taradash and Mrs Fernex on behalf of the Green Group in the European Parliament

The European Parliament,

A. having regard to the information disseminated by the Tibetan Youth Congress in Dharamsala and the Tibetan office in Zurich, and confirmed by Amnesty International, according to wich the day is rapidly approaching when, after the usual two-year suspension, the death sentence will probably be carried out on the 22-year-old student Lobsang Tenzing, sentenced in March 1988 for allegedly having killed a Chinese policeman,

B. having regard to the normal pratice of the Chinese authorities of holding public executions in order to intimidate the Tibetan population on the anniversary of 10 March, the date on which the Tibetans commemorate the Chinese invasion in 1950,

C. having regard to the continued existence of the death sentence in Chinese law,

D. having regard to the continued existence in Lhasa of the martial law decreed on 8 March 1989,

E. having regard to its earlier resolutions on Tibet,

1. Resolutely condemns capital punishment and demands its removal from the laws of China and any other country where it still exists;

2. Condemns the use of intimidating practices by China vis-à-vis the Tibetans who are asking for liberty for their people;

3. Considers that the announcement of the possible execution of Lobsang Tenzing makes the Political Affairs Committee's hearing on the human rights situation in Tibet even more urgent and asks the committee concerned to do its best to eliminate all obstacles to the holding of these hearings so that they can take place by the summer;

4. Ask the foreign ministers meeting in EPC, the Commission and the Council, each within their respective terms of reference, to ask the Chinese Government to suspend the execution of Lobsang Tenzing and to commute capital sentences to imprisonment and to ensure total respect for human rights in China;

5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Chinese Government, the Tibetan Government in exile, the Commission, the Council and the foreign ministers meeting in EPC