Seventeen Point Agreement

Seventeen Point Agreement
Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
Tibetan plenipotentiaries signing the agreement
Signed23 May 1951 (1951-05-23)
LocationQinzheng Hall, Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China
Ratified24 October 1951
Parties
Ratifiers14th Dalai Lama
Languages
Full text
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Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese中央人民政府和西藏地方政府關於和平解放西藏辦法的協議
Simplified Chinese中央人民政府和西藏地方政府关于和平解放西藏办法的协议
Seventeen Point Agreement
Traditional Chinese十七條協議
Simplified Chinese十七条协议
Tibetan name
Tibetanབོད་ཞི་བས་བཅིངས་འགྲོལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་སྐོར་གྱི་གྲོས་མཐུན་དོན་ཚན་བཅུ་བདུན་

The Seventeen-Point Agreement, officially the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, was an agreement between the Tibetan Government and the People's Republic of China. It was signed by plenipotentiaries of the Central People's Government and the Tibetan Government on 23 May 1951, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing.[1] The 14th Dalai Lama ratified the agreement in the form of a telegraph on 24 October 1951.[2] The Agreement was legally reputiated by Tibet less than eight years later on 11 March 1959.[3]

After his arrival in India on 19 March, the 14th Dalai Lama further repudiated the agreement on 18 April 1959, when he issued a statement declaring that the agreement was made under duress,[4] and again reputiated the agreement on 20 June at a press conference. The Central Tibetan Administration, which was formed after 1960, considers the agreement invalid.[5]

Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, who led the Tibetan delegation during the agreement's negotiations, reported that there was no duress involved.[6][7] The validity of the agreement continues to be a source of controversy.

  1. ^ Goldstein & Rimpoche 1989, pp. 812–813.
  2. ^ Grunfeld 1996, p. 107.
  3. ^ Tibet and the Chinese People's Republic. Report to the International Commission of Jurists by the Legal Enquiry Committee on Tibet. ICJ: Geneva, 1960, p20.
  4. ^ Lama 1959.
  5. ^ Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile 2021.
  6. ^ Pan 2014, p. 258: "阿沛:'大民族绝不压迫小民族 ...'" ["Ngapoi: 'A big ethnic group would never oppress a small ethnic group ...'"]
  7. ^ Luo 2017: "阿沛等在信中说:'目前进行和谈是个时机,共产党确无强迫命令的想法和作法,一切可以心平气和地进行商谈决定。'" ["Ngapoi and others said in the letter: 'It is now an opportune time for peace talks. The Communist Party does not have the desire to give coercive orders, and everything can be negotiated and decided calmly.'"]

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