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Foreign Affairs Committee: Press Notice
19 May 2008

FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH OFFICE HUMAN RIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT 2007
Oral Evidence Session: His Holiness the Dalai Lama

10:30 am - Thursday 22 May 2008

The Foreign Affairs Committee will hold its third evidence session for its inquiry into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Human Rights Annual Report 2007 on Thursday 22 May at 10.30am.

It has been the Committee's practice to scrutinise the FCO's Human Rights Annual Report, focusing on issues and countries where human rights are of particular concern. The Committee has already held an evidence session with Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as well as a separate session with Lord Malloch-Brown, the Minister responsible for Human Rights at the FCO.

Given the particular interest in China's human rights record in 2008, the Committee has requested to take oral evidence from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on a range of human rights issues during his visit to the United Kingdom this week, and His Holiness has agreed to this request.

The session will be held in the Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House and will be open to members of the press with Houses of Parliament passes and other passholders. Non-passholders from the press and public are welcome to view the session on a screen in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House.

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1. The FCO Human Rights Annual Report 2007 inquiry was announced in press notice No. 23, dated 23rd March 2008. This evidence session was first announced in press notice No. 27, dated 22 April 2008.

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I am planning go there and have a look.

当全世界都在注视中国政府如何竭尽全力拯救地震灾民的生命的同时，他去作所谓的“ZF侵犯人权”的证词，这不是自打嘴巴吗？ 非常不幸的是这次大地震发生在汶川藏族羌族自治州境内，他对受灾的藏民做了什么？

又没在中国的人怎么作证

他们怎么不关注伊拉克，阿富汗的人权？那里的人连最基本的生存权都没有保障，何谈其他人权。

http://www.justgiving.com/tibetearthquake

趁火打劫，借机会为藏独募捐。

要是我估计的不错，不明真相的人捐的钱，不太可能到藏族灾民手上，只能被拿来充实海外藏独的火药库而已。

有谁了解这个 www.tibet-foundation.org 是什么底细？

第一时间赶到灾区的佛门弟子有台湾的慈济和佛光山两个团体，到现在有谁见过一个喇嘛？

visioining what they will do, if ever do it is: ask in relief work 'are you a Tibetan? no? get out...'

yeah that relief work will be very humanitarian and efficient.

真的？明天问问他去 看他准备做什么？

你去过伊拉克和阿富汗吗，你怎么知道那里生存权没有保障？伊拉克和阿富汗都有自己的议会和总统选举，中国政府对伊拉克的大选成功还表示了欢迎。

不要先入为主啊。没准达赖是来证明本次中国政府在救灾工作中尽全力保护了人权呢？

Have a look and see how many times he has used “I heard…, I think…, I don’t know…” to talk about the evidences he gave yesterday.

http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/VideoPla...?meetingId=1865

My questions:

1) Is this kind of "evidence session" held only for China, not any other countires?

2) If it is necessary for someone to join this session to testify, do you have anyone other than Dalai Lama? And why that person?