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EU parliament president says Olympics boycott should be considered

Other News Materials 22 March 2008 23:33 (UTC +04:00)

( dpa )- A boycott of this summer's Beijing Olympic Games should be considered if China does not re-evaluate its actions in Tibet, the president of the European Parliament said in an interview to be published in a German Sunday newspaper.

" Beijing must decide. It must negotiate with the Dalai Lama immediately," Hans-Gert Poettering told the mass circulation Bild newspaper.

Boycott measures were justified, if there was no attempt at reconciling the differences, Poettering said.

"We should not exclude the possibility of a boycott of the Beijing Olympics. We want a successful Games, but not at the price of the cultural genocide of the Tibetans," he said.

Poettering, a member of the conservative Christian bloc in the parliament, said the European Parliament would discuss the situation in Tibet on Wednesday.

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