{"id":12137,"date":"2018-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/nieuws\/ict-president-matteo-mecacci-raises-tibet-with-un-and-eu-officials-in-geneva-and-brussels\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T22:00:00","slug":"ict-president-matteo-mecacci-raises-tibet-with-un-and-eu-officials-in-geneva-and-brussels","status":"publish","type":"nieuws","link":"https:\/\/savetibet.nl\/en\/news\/ict-president-matteo-mecacci-raises-tibet-with-un-and-eu-officials-in-geneva-and-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"ICT President Matteo Mecacci raises Tibet with UN and EU officials in Geneva and Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein and ICT Chairman of the Board, Richard Gere, in Geneva<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n


On June 26, ICT President Matteo Mecacci attended the meeting between the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein and ICT Chairman of the Board, Richard Gere, in Geneva, where the human rights situation inside Tibet was discussed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following that, Matteo Mecacci was in Brussels on June 27 and 28 to meet with representatives from different national and European Institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He first met with the Austrian Permanent Representation to the EU, a week before the start of Austria\u2019s EU Presidency, and presented ideas and concrete recommendations for EU policy on Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He then met with MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Cristian Dan Preda, who is member of both the Foreign Affairs Committee and Human Rights Subcommittee at the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matteo Mecacci then presented ICT report \u201cAccess Denied: China\u2019s enforces isolation of Tibet, and the case of reciprocity\u201d at the Tibet Interest Group of the European Parliament. Four Members of the European Parliament attended the meeting together with the Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Western Europe, Tashi Phuntsok, and several staff members of the European Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also met a representative of the Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry and the former President of the European Economic and Social Committee, Mr. Henri Malosse. In all these meetings Matteo Mecacci raised the issues of the degradation of the human rights situation in Tibet, the problem of access to Tibet for foreign observers, and lack of reciprocity between the EU and China, and how to increase international cooperation on Tibet, in particular between the US and the EU and its Member States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matteo Mecacci also had a meeting with the EU Special Envoy for the freedom of religion and belief outside the EU, Mr. Jan Figel’, during which he focused on the lack of religious freedom in Tibet, an issue that the European Parliament has raised many times, and on how this is relevant to Tibetan Buddhists worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ICT Europe Executive Director Tsering Jampa presents a Khata to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein and ICT Chairman of the Board, Richard Gere, in Geneva.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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ICT President Matteo Mecacci with MEP Cristian Dan Preda<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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ICT President Matteo Mecacci presenting the reciprocal access to Tibet report at the meeting of the EP Tibet Interest Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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CT President Matteo Mecacci (right) and ICT EU Policy Director Vincent Metter (left) with Mr. Henri Malosse, former President of the EESC and ICT President Matteo Mecacci<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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ICT President Matteo Mecacci with MEPs Csaba Sogor and Thomas Mann and others. Also seen are Representative Tashi Phuntsok and ICT EU Policy Director Vincent Metten.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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ICT President Matteo Mecacci with Jan Figel’, EU Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion and Belief outside the EU<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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ICT President Matteo Mecacci with Tashi Phuntsok, Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in Brussels<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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