March 16

On March 16, 1989, Ambassador Liu Shan, leader of China Delegation to European Community made an urgent appointment to meet Lord Plum in Strasbourg, France. During the meeting, Ambassador Liu on behalf of Chinese government protested that the two resolutions on Tibetan human rights passed by the European Parliament seriously interfered in the internal affairs of China and China would reserve its right to make further representations.

On March 16, 1988, Yao Yilin, Vice Premier of the State Council, reiterated that Tibet issue is the internal affair of China and foreign countries are not allowed to interfere with it, during the meeting with representatives of Norway Parliament.

He expressed that Tibet is an inalienable part of China. All the countries in the world accepted the fact that Tibet is included in the territory of China. Tibet issue concerned with the ethnic minority and religion, which were involved in the internal affairs of China and could be handled under the leadership of the central government.

As a country with multi-nationalities and multi-religions, China opposed people attempting to separate Tibet from China but not Tibetan nationality or religions. Those were two kinds of issues.

Sme violent incidents happened in Tibet were incited by several separatists who attempted to separate Tibet from China. China would never allow that some people conduct separatist activities with the excuse of so-called human rights issue.

On March 16, 1966, Tibet Normal College was officially established and held the opening ceremony.

On March 16, 1956, the central delegation headed by Vice Premier Chen Yi left Beijing to Tibet in order to congratulate the founding of Tibet Autonomous Region Preparation Committee.