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2017. április 7./Phayul.com/TibetPress

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By Tenzin Monlam

DHARAMSHALA, April 7: A long time Tibet supporter and Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has asked US president Donald Trump to raise the issue of human rights with the Chinese president Xi Jinping during their summit at Trumps private resort Mar-a-Lago.

In a letter to the president, Pelosi said it is important to push the bilateral ties between the two nations to new heights but that human rights should also be an integral part while dealing with China, which has a bad record of ‘exploitation of prison labor, engage in other unfair labor practices, and stifle free speech and dissent.’

“The violations of human rights in China and Tibet challenge the conscience of the world. If we are to be true to our values, we cannot ignore that challenge nor forget the long list of those imprisoned for their religious and political beliefs,” she wrote.

Pelosi wrote that if the US does not speak out clearly for human rights in China because of commercial interests, it would lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anywhere else in the world.

The Democratic leader also met with Dr. Tenzin Dorjee, Commissioner at US Commission on International Religious Freedom yesterday to advocate on the release of 11th Panchen Lama Gendhun Choekyi Nyima. Dr. Dorjee also spoke about the young Panchen Lama at the launch of religious prisoners of conscience project at US Capitol Hill.

Similarly, US Senators Ben Cardin and Marco Rubio called on Trump’s top diplomat, Rex Tillerson, Secretary of State, to make human rights in China their top priority, both privately and publicly, in the discussion.

“The crack down on civil society and deterioration of rule of law in China in the past few years appears to signal a systematic effort by CCP leadership to tighten its controls on free expression and undermine the will of its own people, including the rights of its ethnic minorities guaranteed under China’s own Constitution,” Cardin and Rubio wrote in their letter to the Secretary of State.