NEW DELHI: On the occasion of World Human Rights Day on 10 December, a Tibetan Parliamentary delegation submitted to UN officials in Delhi a petition signed by 357,000 people across the world to seek UN’s intervention to resolve the issue of Tibet.
 
The petition was signed by people from all spectrum of the world community in over 90 countries, including government leaders, members of congress and parliaments, during the flame of truth relay across the world organised by the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The campaign was launched this July in the wake of an increasing number of Tibetans setting themselves on fire in protest against the China’s repressive rule in Tibet.
 
Presenting the petition compiled in 119 books to the UN officials, the Tibetan parliamentarians called on the United Nations to act on finding a lasting solution to the issue of Tibet.
 
Mr R K Sharma, representing director of UN Information Centre, assured to forward the petition to the concerned UN offices in New York and Geneva, Mr Karma Yeshi, a member of Tibetan parliamentary delegation, said in a press release.  
 
The petition urges the United Nations to act on its past resolutions on the issue of Tibet in 1959, 1961 and 1965, and immediately send an independent international fact-finding delegations to investigate the ongoing crisis in Tibet.