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London, 30th October 2007

On Saturday, 27th October, Chithue Sonam Frasi, one of the Tibetan parliament members representing the Tibetans in Europe visited the Tibetan community in Holland.

The meeting with the Tibetan community was very successful. He explained to the Tibetan community members at length the workings of the Tibetan parliament in exile, the importance of the Chatrel contribution and updated on the current status of Sino-Tibetan dialogue.

He informed the Tibetans that during September 2007's assembly session, the Tibetan parliament-in-exile made an amendment to the rules and regulations governing the green book contribution. This amendment was to grant a one off amnesty to any Tibetan who has missed their green book contribution and who now wishes to start or renew making their contribution. The amnesty would be that these Tibetans would not be asked to back pay any contributions missed in the past. This will enable quite a number of Tibetans to resume green book contributions to the Tibetan government in exile, who were deterred from making the payment due to the large sums involved in some cases.

On 28th October, Chithue Sonam Frasi attended the annual conference of the International Campaign for Tibet, Europe, where he was one of the keynote speakers.