European Parliament resolution on Tibet, the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche
Date: 2004-11-18
Institutions: European Parliament
Subjects: China, Tibetan question, barring of penalties by limitation, death penalty, human rights, political prisoner, right to justice

C 201 E/122

Official Journal of the European Union

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18.8.2005

Thursday 18 November 2004

9.
Calls on the Council, with regard to conflict prevention, to fight the underlying causes of the crisis, in
particular the economic and social causes, and to support the deployment of African Union peacekeeping
forces, in the context of the EDF ‘peace facility’; calls on the EU and the international community to step up
funding for humanitarian aid in Côte d'Ivoire as soon as the conditions allow for increased, and desperately
needed, operations;

Calls on the Council, in this context, to consider consultations between the EU and Côte d'Ivoire

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under Articles 9 and 96 of the Cotonou Agreement;

Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Secretaries-

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General of the UN, the African Union and Ecowas, and the President and Government of Côte d'Ivoire.

P6_TA(2004)0067

Tibet (case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche)

European Parliament resolution on Tibet, the case of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche

The European Parliament,

— having regard to its earlier resolutions on Tibet and the human rights situation in China, and its resol-

utions on human rights in the world,

— having regard to its resolution of 19 December 2002 (1) on the cases of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and

Lobsang Dhondup,

— having regard to Rule 115(5) of its Rules of Procedure,

A. whereas on 2 December 2002 the Kardze (Ganzi) Intermediate People's Court in the Kardze Tibetan
Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province sentenced Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, an influential Buddhist
lama, to death, suspended for two years, and whereas his attendant, Lobsang Dhondup, was executed
on 26 January 2003, in both cases for alleged political offences,

B. whereas both had been arrested in early April 2002 following a bombing incident in Chengdu, the

capital of Sichuan Province, on 3 April 2002,

C. whereas Tenzin Delek Rinpoche was charged with ‘causing explosions’ and ‘inciting separatism’ and his

guilt has not been proven,

D. whereas Tenzin Delek Rinpoche has reportedly been held incommunicado from his arrest until today,

and has reportedly been tortured for several months,

E.

seriously concerned at the fact that the period of suspension of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's execution will
expire on 2 December 2004,

F. whereas, at the request of the then European Council, the Council

is currently re-examining the

embargo on arms sales to China, which was decided and implemented in 1989,

G. whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China recently received representatives of His

Holiness the Dalai Lama,

(1) OJ C 31 E, 5.2.2004, p. 264.

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Reiterates its call for the abolition of the death penalty, calls for an immediate moratorium on capital
punishment in China and urges the Chinese authorities to immediately commute the death sentence handed
down to Tenzin Delek Rinpoche;

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Strongly condemns the execution of Lobsang Dhondup on 26 January 2003;

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Calls on the Chief Prosecutor of the Sichuan Provincial People's Procuratorate and the Governor of the
Sichuan Provincial People's Government to do their utmost to prevent the execution of Tenzin Delek Rin-
poche;

4.
Urges the authorities to guarantee that Tenzin Delek Rinpoche will not be ill-treated in detention, asks
for an immediate review of the case and calls on the Chinese authorities to do all in their power to establish
that international human rights and humanitarian law standards are being respected and, in particular, to
guarantee internationally recognised legal proceedings for persons arrested;

5.
Calls on the European Union and its Member States to urge the Government of the People's Republic
of China to respect the religious rights and freedom of the Tibetan people, and in particular to prevent the
execution of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche and to call for a new and fair trial;

Calls on the Commission and the Council to express their concerns about Tenzin Delek Rinpoche's

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case during the forthcoming EU/China Summit;

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Calls on the Council and the Member States to maintain the EU embargo on trade in arms with the
People's Republic of China and not to weaken the existing national limitations on such arms sales; considers
that this embargo should be maintained until such time as the EU has adopted a legally binding Code of
Conduct on Arms Exports and the People's Republic of China has taken concrete steps towards improving
the human rights situation in that country, inter alia by ratifying the UN Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and by fully respecting the rights of minorities;

8. Welcomes the release of Ngawang Sangdrol and Jigme Sangpo, Tibet's longest-serving prisoners of
conscience, and urges the Chinese authorities to continue with prisoner releases;

9.
Calls on the Government of the People's Republic of China to step up the ongoing dialogue with the
representatives of the Dalai Lama with the aim of reaching a mutually acceptable solution to the issue of
Tibet without further delay;

Reiterates, in this respect, its call to the Council to appoint an EU Special Representative for Tibetan

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Affairs so as to contribute effectively to the peaceful resolution of this issue;

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Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the UN Secretary-
General, the Chinese Government, the Governor of Sichuan Province and the Chief Prosecutor of the
Sichuan Provincal People's Procuratorate.

P6_TA(2004)0068

Human rights in Eritrea

European Parliament resolution on the human rights situation in Eritrea

The European Parliament,

— having regard to the ruling against Eritrea by the African Commission on Human Rights in March

2004,

— having regard to Rule 115(5) of its Rules of Procedure,