German Parliament Hosts Meeting of Tibet Group Discussion[Thursday, 18 March 2010, 12:07 p.m.]

Members of the Mr. Holger Haibach, Christian Democratic Party – Co-Chair of the Tibet Discussion Group of the German Bundestag (first first left). From right: Kai Müller (Managing Director International Campaign for Tibet Germany), Tseten S Chhoekyapa (Representative of the Dalai Lama in Geneva), Mr. Volker Beck MP, Chief Whip of the Green Party and Spokesman for human rights of the Green Party and Mr. Manuel Sarrazin, MP, Vice-Chairman of the Tibetan discussion group of the German Bundestag)

Berlin: The
first meeting of the Tibet Discussion Group in the German Parliament
was held on 16 March in Berlin. His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s
Representative Mr. Tseten Samdup Chhoekyapa was the guest during the
meeting. The meeting was held inside the German Parliament building.Over
6 German Members of Parliament attended the meeting with staffers from
other MPs. Due to German Parliament’s budget session many MPs were not
able to attend the meeting. The new German Parliament was elected last
September.Mr. Chhoekyapa informed the about the letter from the
Mr. Penpa Tsering, the Speaker of the Assmebly of Tibetan People’s
Deputies addressed to the four Co-chairs of the group. The
Tibet Discussion Group is a bi-partisan group.  The four Co-Chairs are
from the two governing Parties – Mr. Holger Haibach, Christian
Democratic Party and Mr. Harald Leibrecht, Free Democratic Party and
opposition parties, Mr. Johannes Pflug, Social Democratic Party and Mr.
Manuel Sarrazin, Green Party.