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"Let me make clear to the honourable Member what the position is. I stated nothing but the truth when I said that the appointment of special envoys was a matter for the Council. As it happens, we deal with the budgetary consequences, the Council makes the appointment. Some may think that the budgetary point should be looked at in due course.
Putting that on one side, because that is the situation, it does not mean that we do not have a view and a competence in human rights issues. I am very much hoping in the next few months that the Commission will be able to produce a communication on human rights pointing out, among other things, that there is no disjunction whatsoever between a regard for human rights in China or other places in the world and the trading and commercial interests and other interests of the European Union. I have long believed that we should all recognise that countries where it is best to do business are countries that treat their own citizens most decently – everywhere in the world.
I repeat that we have made our position known to the Chinese on Tibet. During the few months that I have been a Commissioner that has happened twice, first of all in New York at our meeting with Minister Tang and most recently at the meeting in Peking and we will continue to make that concern manifest.
If I can make a literary commendation to the honourable Member, who I recognise is interested in these subjects, I recommend to him a book published just before Christmas written by Isabel Hilton, the distinguished journalist, on the problems of Tibet."@en1
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