European Parliament members for peaceful solution on Tibet
Dharamsala, May 9: Members of the European Parliament have favoured genuine autonomy for the people of Tibet and restarting a dialogue between the Dalai Lama's envoys and the Chinese government, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said on Wednesday.
A three-member European parliamentary delegation consisting of Thomas Mann, Csaba Sogor and Ramon Tremosa visited the Tibetan parliament-in-exile on Tuesday.
"I don't know if we are one of the strongest supporters but we do meet regularly. Every month we have the opportunity to have visits by experts and people who had suffered and had been imprisoned in Tibet," a CTA post quoting Mann, chair of the Tibet Interest Group in the European Parliament, said.
Expressing support for the cause of Tibetans, he said the promulgation of human rights is most important for them and they always strive to include human rights of the suppressed on their agendas every time in the European Union.
"We support for the genuine autonomy -- 'middle-way approach' as adopted by the Central Tibetan Administration and emphasized on the necessity of resuming the stalled dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the government of China," he said.
The Dalai Lama's envoys and the Chinese have held nine rounds of talks since 2002 to resolve the Tibetan issue but no major breakthrough has been achieved so far.
The last talks were held in Beijing in January 2010.
Mann also stressed on the importance of the environment of Tibet, stating it to be the major source of rivers for most of the South-Asian countries.
Sogor, also a member of the Tibet Interest Group, stressed the significance of equipping the younger Tibetans with experiences in the diplomatic field by creating a conducive environment for them to work as trainees and interns at various parliamentary secretariats and offices.
Another European Parliamentarian, Tremosa, reiterating the parallels between the struggling movement of the Tibetans in exile and the Catalan people, said "it is interesting to see and learn how the Tibetan administration functions and how the struggle movement of peaceful resistance operates in exile".
The Tibetan administration in exile, led by its President Lobsang Sangay, is based in the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
