§ Mr. DuncanTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what response he has received from the Chinese authorities to the draft resolution on the situation in Tibet put forward at the UN Commission on Human Rights.
§ Mr. GoodladWe, together with our EC partners, took the lead in promoting the draft of a resolution on the human rights situation in China including Tibet at the UN Commission on Human Rights earlier this year. The draft resolution referred to a resolution on Tibet adopted in the UN sub-commission in August 1991. The Chinese authorities opposed the draft resolution, which was subsequently defeated by a procedural motion.