[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 106 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 106

Urging the President to raise, at the highest levels of the Government 
  of the People's Republic of China, the issue of Chinese population 
  transfer into Tibet in an effort to bring about an immediate end to 
                that government's policy on this issue.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 27, 1993

  Mr. Ackerman (for himself, Mr. Gilman, Mr. Porter, and Mr. Lantos) 
 submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Urging the President to raise, at the highest levels of the Government 
  of the People's Republic of China, the issue of Chinese population 
  transfer into Tibet in an effort to bring about an immediate end to 
                that government's policy on this issue.

Whereas the most critical issue for the Tibetan people today is the transfer of 
        Chinese population into Tibet, which is reducing the Tibetans to a 
        minority in their own country;
Whereas this population transfer is a combination of the direct transfer of 
        Chinese by the Government of the People's Republic of China and 
        government-induced relocation;
Whereas the rate of population transfer has now reached the point where the 
        distinct identity of the Tibetan people and their civilization are being 
        overwhelmed;
Whereas the transfer of Chinese population into Tibet threatens the cultural, 
        religious, and national identity of the Tibetan people and violates 
        their human rights;
Whereas the State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 
        1992 states that the ``massive influx into Tibet of Han Chinese. . 
        .already affects ethnic mixture in Lhasa'', and in 1992 Asia Watch 
        stated that the movement of Chinese into Tibet ``has increased in recent 
        years. . .because of incentives directly offered by the government'';
Whereas Tibetans have already been reduced to a minority of the population in 
        all major Tibetan towns and cities;
Whereas new Chinese towns and cities, exclusively inhabited by Chinese settlers, 
        are being built at an increasing rate;
Whereas Chinese population transfer results in widespread discrimination against 
        Tibetans and in marginalization of Tibetans in political and economic 
        spheres;
Whereas the Government of the People's Republic of China sends Chinese settlers 
        to Tibet and induces Chinese to relocate in Tibet by offering incentives 
        such as wage, pension, and tax benefits, interest-free or low-interest 
        loans, housing assistance, and assured employment for family members who 
        move to Tibet;
Whereas on October 28, 1991, the Congress enacted section 355 of the Foreign 
        Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993, which expresses 
        the sense of the Congress that Tibet is an illegally occupied country 
        whose true representatives are the Tibetan government in exile and His 
        Holiness the Dalai Lama;
Whereas His Holiness the Dalai Lama's efforts to achieve a peaceful negotiated 
        solution to the problem of the transfer of Chinese into Tibet have not 
        been reciprocated by the Government of the People's Republic of China: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That the Congress urges the President to raise, at the highest levels 
of the Government of the People's Republic of China, the issue of 
Chinese population transfer into Tibet in an effort to bring about an 
immediate end to that government's policy on this issue.

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