Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a)

notes:

(i)

the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising of 10 March 1959 and the Dalai Lama’s exile to India, and

(ii)

the continuing human rights concerns in Tibet;

(b)

acknowledges the Tibetans’ half century of peaceful resistance to policies undermining their religion, culture and livelihoods and expresses solidarity with the Tibetan people;

(c)

notes with concern the Chinese Government’s outright rejection of the Tibetans’ Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People, a detailed proposal for resolving the Tibet issue through proper implementation of existing provisions for regional ethnic autonomy contained in the constitution of the People’s Republic of China; and

(d)

acknowledges that recent unilateral efforts by concerned governments, including Australia, have failed to secure meaningful negotiations on Tibet’s future.