ELDR Council meeting
Tallinn, 11^th April 2008
Urgency resolution on Tibet

The ELDR Party:
1. Supports the request made by the Dalai Lama for and independent inquiry into repression and violence in Tibet;

2. Condemns the systematic violations of the rights of ethnic groups such as the Tibetans, the Uyghurs and the Inner Mongolians, and of all religious denominations, included Falun Gong;

3. Supports the Dalai Lama’s call on the Tibetan people to demonstrate non-violently, reaffirming the so-called “middle way” approach to enjoy a genuine political autonomy; invites the Chinese authorities to acknowledge their earnests requests;

4. Urges China to ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to establish a moratorium on the death penalty;

5. Calls on the EU to find a common position on the attendance at the Olympic Games opening ceremony, with the option of non-attendance in the event there is no resumption of dialogue between the Chinese authorities and the Dalai Lama;

6. Calls on the national Olympic committees of the EU member states to show their concern about the human rights situation in China and all over the world;

7. Supports the proposal that the Dalai Lama should be invited shortly to Brussels to meet with the Council and the European Parliament;

8. Calls for parties, governments, individuals and companies to remember the importance of information for people from the former Eastern bloc;

9. Calls for a freedom of information, free and fully functioning internet and a free and uncensored press in China;

10. Urges people to visit China and to travel through Tibet.