WRITTEN QUESTION P-3743/02 by Hanja Maij-Weggen (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Executions of Tibetans in China.
Date: 2002-12-13
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: China, Tibetan question, death penalty, penalty, right to justice, the EU's international role

C 70 E/18

Official Journal of the European Union

EN

20.3.2004

The objectives of the Special Framework of Assistance (SFA), set out in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EC)
No 856/1999 of 22 April 1999 establishing a special
framework of assistance for traditional ACP
suppliers of bananas (1), are improvement of competitiveness and/or support to diversification. So far, no
project was refused on the grounds of its non-eligibility. In parallel with the technical assistance aimed at
modernising the ACP banana industry, projects approved so far have included different forms of aid
targeted at growers, including social support and training programmes. However, direct income support
could not be allowed under the SFA, and therefore if support for inputs took this form, it too would not
be allowed.

As a complement to SFA, Stabex funds are being used, with a great degree of flexibility, to support social
and human development such as housing schemes, pensions, schools, and private initiatives.

The new instrument FLEX, which is included in Envelope B of the Financial Protocol of the Cotonou
Agreement and replaces Stabex, might well constitute a possible source of funds in the future, provided the
banana sector fulfils the requirements foreseen.

(1) OJ L 108, 27.4.1999.

(2004/C 70 E/019)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3743/02

by Hanja Maij-Weggen (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(13 December 2002)

Subject: Executions of Tibetans in China

Is the Commission aware that on 2 December 2002 a Chinese Court sentenced two Tibetans, Tenzin Delek
Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup to death for alleged involvement in a bomb attack?

Is the Commission aware that the evidence on the basis of which this sentence was made is extremely thin
and has been called into doubt?

Is the Commission prepared to act at very short notice in order to bring pressure to bear on the Chinese
authorities to prevent the executions, the first of which is planned to take place on 12 December and the
second within two years?

Answer given by Mr Patten on behalf of the Commission

(16 January 2003)

The Commission has been informed of the death sentence imposed on the two Tibetans Tenzin Delek
Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup on 2 December 2002, on the basis of their alleged involvement in a
bomb attack. The Commission also took note that the proof on which the sentence was based and the way
the trial has been carried out has been contested.

The Union immediately expressed its concern officially to the Chinese authorities within the time limit
allowed by them so as to permit to the two Tibetans sentenced to death to lodge an appeal. Such appeals
have since been lodged (in December 2002).

(2004/C 70 E/020)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3746/02

by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Commission

(20 December 2002)

Subject: Tibet/China: death sentence on Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche and Lobsang Dhondup

A court in the province of Sichuan in western China has passed death sentences on Tenzin Deleg
Rinpoche, a senior Tibetan monk, and his attendant, Lobsang Dhondup,
following what many
international organisations regard as a completely unfair trial. The Chinese authorities have not released