Senior Tibetan Official Meets Brazilian GuestsPuqung, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region's People's Congress, met with Paulo Delgado, vice-president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, and his party here today.Puqung briefly introduced to the guests the regional people's congress. He said that Tibetans account for over 90 percent of its members and the most of its leaders are Tibetans, and these fully show that Tibetans are the masters of the autonomous region. He told the visitors that before the democratic reform in 1959, a feudal serf system was practiced in Tibet, under which the serfs have neither the means of production nor the right for subsistence, let alone political and democratic rights. However, since 1959, the broad masses of the Tibetan people have won not only what they need in everyday life and production but also the rights and interests endowed by China's Constitution, he added. Delgado and his party are paying a three-day visit to Tibet at the invitation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese National People's Congress. |
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