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 PUBLIC LAW 100-204—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1423

(13) in 1959, 1961, and 1965, the United Nations General Assembly called upon the People's Republic of China to end the violations of Tibetans' human rights; (14) on July 24, 1985, 91 Members of the Congress signed a letter to President Li Xiannian of the People's Republic of China expressing support for direct talks between Beijing and representatives of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans in exile, and urging the Government of the People's Republie of China "to grant the very reasonable and justified aspirations of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and his people every consideration"; (15) on September 27, 1987, the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the Co-Chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus signed a letter to his Excellency Zhao Ziyang, the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China, expressing their "grave concern with the present situation in Tibet and welcomeTd) His Holiness the Dalai Lama's (five point) proposal as an historic step toward resolving the important question of Tibet and alleviating the suffering of the "ribetan people... (and) express(ing) their full support for his proposal."; and (16) there has been no positive response by the Government of the People's Republic of China to either of these communications. (b) STATEMENT OF POLICIES.—It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the United States should express sympathy for those Tibetans who have suffered and died as a result of fighting, persecution, or famine over the past four decades; (2) the United States should make the treatment of the Tibetan people an important factor in its conduct of relations with the People's Republic of China; (3) the Government of the People's Republic of China should respect internationaly recognized human rights and end human rights violations against Tibetans; (4) the United States should urge the Government of the People's Republic of China to actively reciprocate the Dalai Lama's efforts to establish a constructive dialogue on the future of Tibet; (5) Tibetan culture and religion should be preserved and the Dalai Lama should be commended for his efforts in this regard; (6) the United States, through the Secretary of State, should address and call attention to the rights of the Tibetan people, as well as other non-Han-Chinese within the People's Republic of China such as the Uighurs of Eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang), and the Mongolians of Inner Mongolia; (7) the President should instruct United States officials. including the United States Ambassadors to the People's Republic of China and India, to pay greater attention to the concerns of the Tibetan people and to work closely with all concerned about human rights violations in Tibet in order to find areas in which the United States Government and people can be helpful; and (8) the United States should urge the People's Republic of China to release all political prisoners in Tibet.

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