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"Madam President, naturally, the Group of the Party of European Socialists fully supports this motion for a resolution. The fact that the World Bank is about to make its decision, which has already been mentioned, is conclusive proof of the urgent nature of the resolution. If the World Bank finances the programme to combat poverty in Western China, the Chinese Government is likely to transfer large numbers of ethnic Chinese to Tibet, with the risk, or rather the explicit intention, that the Tibetans will be reduced to a minority. In this case, their cultural, linguistic and religious traditions will almost inevitably disappear as a matter of course.
In our opinion, it is essential for Parliament to speak out against the World Bank's decision. We call upon the governments to do everything in their power and use every avenue available to them – economic and otherwise, in view of the fact that China wants to join the WTO etc. – to ensure that China respects Tibet's autonomy and that negotiations are resumed as soon as possible between the Chinese Government and the Dalai Lama with the intention of establishing a new statute for Tibet. This is the first point of our conclusions in this resolution.
The negotiations must be based on the Dalai Lama's five-point programme, which has our full support. We would also like to wish him a happy birthday."@en1
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