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
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngyāng Rénmín Zhèngfǔ hé Xīzàng Dìfāng Zhèngfǔ guānyú hépíng jiěfàng Xīzàng bànfǎ de xiéyì
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingZung1joeng1 Jan4man4 Zing3fu2 wo4 Sai1zong6 Dei6fong1 Zing3fu2 gwaan1jyu1 wo4ping4 gaai2fong3 Sai1zong6 baan6faat3 dik1 hip6ji5
Seventeen Point Agreement
Traditional Chinese十七條協議
Simplified Chinese十七条协议
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyinshíqī tiáo xiéyì
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsap6cat1 tiu4 hip6ji5
Tibetan name
Tibetanབོད་ཞི་བས་བཅིངས་འགྲོལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་སྐོར་གྱི་གྲོས་མཐུན་དོན་ཚན་བཅུ་བདུན་
Transcriptions
Wyliebod zhi pas bcings 'grol 'byung thabs skor gyi gros mthun don tshan bcu bdun

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 Tibet 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][2] The 14th Dalai Lama ratified the agreement in the form of a telegraph on 24 October 1951.[3] The Agreement was legally repudiated by Tibet less than eight years later on 11 March 1959.[4]

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,[5] and again repudiated the agreement on 20 June at a press conference. The Central Tibetan Administration, which was formed after 1960, considers the agreement invalid.[6]

Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, who led the Tibetan delegation during the agreement's negotiations, claimed that there was no duress involved.[7][8][9]

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  2. ^ Goldstein & Rimpoche 1989, pp. 812–813.
  3. ^ Grunfeld 1996, p. 107.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Lama 1959.
  6. ^ Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile 2021.
  7. ^ 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 ...'"]
  8. ^ 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.'"]
  9. ^ 中共西藏自治区委员会. 党史研究室 (2014). 和平解放西藏与执行协议的历史纪录. 和平解放西藏与执行协议的历史纪录 (in Chinese). 中共党史出版社. ISBN 978-7-5098-2793-2. Retrieved 31 August 2024.