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CONCLUSIONS
OF THE EUROPEAN SEMINAR "A NEW STATUTE OF FULL AUTONOMY FOR TIBET
WITHIN THREE YEARS OR INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE TIBETAN GOVERNMENT
IN EXILE".
Brussels, December 8, 2000
a) recalling
the current tragedy of the Tibetan, Mongolian and Uygur peoples
that live in the silence and absence of any significant reaction
of the authorities of the free world countries and under the ferocious
oppression of an authoritarian, colonial and imperialistic regime;
b) considering that, if no urgent concrete political initiative
will be undertaken in the next few years, these peoples will be
confined to the role of extras living in reserves for tourists and
that their existence as peoples will be deleted from the planet;
c) recalling the policy of oppression and violation of fundamental
rights of the Chinese Communist Party and its 1.3 Billion of Chinese,
Tibetan, Mongolian, Uygur victims;
d) considering that the recognition of territorial integrity
of the Chinese State does not constitute - as demonstrated in particular
by the cases of the Baltic States, the Caucasus and Central Asia
- the recognition of the legitimacy of the invasion and occupation
of Tibet;
e) considering that the transformation of the Beijing regime
from a Communist into a National-Communist regime increases its
dangerousness and represents an extremely serious threat both for
the peoples that live in the People's Republic of China and for
the peace and stability in Asian and in the entire world;
f) Concerned by the refusal of Democratic Governments to
take into consideration this threat and considering their inaction
as an act of active complicity with the policies of violation of
fundamental rights perpetrated by the People's Republic of China
as well as their non-assistance to victims of those policies;
g) welcoming the resolution adopted by the European Parliament
on 6 July last in which the EP "Calls on the governments of the
Member States to give serious consideration to the possibility of
recognising the Tibetan Government in exile as the legitimate representative
of the Tibetan people if, within three years, the Beijing authorities
and the Tibetan government in exile have not, through negotiations
organised under the aegis of the Secretary-General of the United
Nations, signed an agreement on a new Statute for Tibet";
h) recalling, as the specified in the above-mentioned text,
that such a Status should include full autonomy in all sectors of
political, economical, social as well as cultural life, with the
sole exception of foreign affairs and defence;
i) recalling, furthermore, that this autonomy should concern
the entirety of the Tibetan territory as prior to the Chinese invasion
of 1949 and not the one of the current Tibetan Autonomous Region
(TAR);
j) welcoming the adoption by the Regional Council of Piedmont
of a motion in which it endorses a resolution adopted by the European
Parliament on 6 July 2000;
k) welcoming the adhesion of Mr. Alain Bayrou, Mayor of Briançon,
to the new "A Flag for a new Status of Full Autonomy for Tibet"
Campaign as well as the other five municipalities that have already
endorsed the initiative;
l) thanking the seven Radical Members of the European Parliament
and the Transnational Radical Party for having organised this third
European Seminar for Freedom of Tibet;
The participants in the Seminar commit themselves and invite
all concerned individuals to:
1) Launch a new campaign targeting all national Parliaments
of Europe urging them to promptly adopt parliamentary resolutions
similar to the one adopted by the European Parliament last June
calling on their respective governments to recognise the Tibetan
Government in Exile if, within the next three years, the Beijing
authorities and the Tibetan Government in exile have not reached
an agreement on a new status for Tibet through a negotiation under
the aegis of the Secretary-General of the United Nations; and to
multiply all initiatives so that the demonstration of 10 March 2001
become an important mobilising occasion in this sense;
2) Launch a new campaign targeting dozens of thousands of
municipalities all over Europe with the objective of permanently
displaying the Tibetan flag until a new status of full autonomy
for Tibet is reached;
3) Mobilise themselves so that the European Union and its
Member States continue their dialogue with the People's Republic
of China but to abandon the so-called "Critical Dialogue on Human
Rights" policy with it and make the establishment and enforcement
of democracy, the rule of law and freedom in China and in the occupied
territories of Tibet, Southern Mongolia and Eastern Turkestan, their
absolute priority, and to defend this position in all bilateral
and multilateral fora beginning with the upcoming session of the
UN Commission on Human Rights;
4) Multiply all initiatives in order to create a world-wide
movement to unite all those that in China, Tibet and the rest of
the world have decided to make the struggle for the establishment
and enforcement of democracy and the rule of law in China, and Freedom
in Tibet, Eastern Turkestan and Southern Mongolia of their priorities
of their political commitment;
To achieve all this, the participants in the Seminar decide to:
5) set as the first objective of the new campaign "A Flag
for a new Status of Full Autonomy for Tibet" the permanent display
of the flag, within the next six months, in at least 1,000 cities
in Europe;
6) create an "EuroTibetForum" through the opening in their
respective internet sites of a section to debate and strategize;
7) create a working group on the economic situation in the
People's Republic of China and on Sino-European economic relations.
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