Article 6GEFP Tibet’s government-in-exile urges Australia not to ‘compromise’ on China’s human rights record

Tibet’s government-in-exile urges Australia not to ‘compromise’ on China’s human rights record

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Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspon
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Norzin Dolma said government should sanction Chinese officials for threatening the very existence ... of Tibetan identity'

Australia must not compromise on human rights as it improves its relationship with China because the truth must be told", a minister from the Tibetan government in exile has said during a visit to Canberra.

Norzin Dolma, a minister of the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala in India, met Australian MPs from across the political spectrum on Thursday to warn against a quiet diplomacy" approach to gross human rights abuses" and brutal suppression" in Tibet.

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