this is NK's reso that will be discussed
COMMITEE: General Assembly
QUESTION OF: Discussion of Recognizing China’s Sovereignty over Tibet
Submitted by: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Co-Submitted by:
The General Assembly,
Declaring that the protests and damage caused by the Tibetan people, such as the Lhasa riots on March 14, 2008 against People’s Republic of China (PRC) are unacceptable,
Being ware that there are currently 56 ethnic groups in the PRC and that there have been hundreds of ethnic groups in China’s history,
Pointing out that no government of any country in the world has ever recognized Tibet as an independent state and that British Foreign Secretary Lord Lansdowne stated that Tibet was ‘‘a province of the Chinese empire’’ in 1904, and when Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru stated that ‘‘Over the past several hundred years, as far as I know, at no time has any foreign country denied China's sovereignty over Tibet’’ in 1954,
Reminding of the engraving on the statue of the Tang Princess Wen Cheng erected during the Changqing Period that was written by the Emperor Muzong of the Great Tang and the Sacred Tsanpo of the Great Tibet Tristug Detsan and that reads in part ‘‘The two sovereigns, uncle and nephew, having come to agreement that their territories be united as one, have signed this alliance of great peace to last for eternity! May God and humanity bear witness there to so that it may be praised from generation to generation’’,
Recognizing that Tibetan territory has been in Chinese control since 1247 after Mongolian prince and military leader Kuoduang successfully held talks with Tibetan religious leader Sajia Banzhida in the Liangzhou White Tower Temple,
Further Recognizing that, according to customary international law and treaty law, the PRC’s claim over Tibet is absolutely unassailable due to the fact that historical treaties such as the Cheffoo Agreement on Sept. 13, 1876 and the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 were directed to China concerning Tibet, instead of directly with the region itself,
Guided by that China has exercised sovereign rights over Tibet since the 13th century and has exercised de jure sovereignty and de facto power over Tibet since then,
Reminding that the PRC is not the only one who has mistreated Tibetans and that the British Indian Forces had, from December 1903- September 1904, caused several thousand casualties and losses in Tibet seeking to prevent the Russian Empire from interfering in Tibetan affairs and thus gaining a foothold in one of the buffer states surrounding British India,
1. Requests Tibetan rioters and protesters to discontinue such violent acts;
2. Supports China’s efforts to unify Tibet into Chinese control by:
a) creating a political education drive,
b) paying a roughly $2.5 billion annually mostly in the form of infrastructure projects,
c) constructing a dam in the Lhasa river that would produce electricity for central Tibet starting in December,
d) exempting Tibet from all taxation and providing 90% of Tibet’s government expenditures,
e) setting up checkpoints and mobilizing Chinese troops to quell any uprisings;
3. Designates that Tibet’s unique ethnicity does not argue in favor of Tibet’s independence;
4. Invites PRC’s leaders and Tibet’s leaders to peacefully solve this issue by convening and discussing about the issue;
5. Further invites nations to support and recognize the PRC’s rightful governing of Tibet.
Subject: GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA 
Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:39 pm
