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"Your Holiness, it is with great honour and emotion, and in a spirit of universal fraternity, that the European Parliament welcomes you to this Chamber of European democracy and, for the first time, in a formal sitting.
Despite the gravity of the events taking place in Central Asia which have caused you to postpone your intended tour of Europe, you have been kind enough to go ahead with your visit to the European Parliament. Our House is very appreciative of this mark of interest, your Holiness.
For the enormous majority of the 380 million Europeans of the Union, of all backgrounds, national, ethnic, religious or political, you embody peace and tolerance between nations and religions, as well as the wise ideals of Buddhism, of which you are the highest spiritual authority. As a young man, 42 years ago, in 1959, faced with the invasion of Tibet, you had to make the heartbreaking decision to flee Lhasa, not in order to abandon your people, but because exile was your only remaining means of defending those people throughout the world.
Inspired by an unfailing philosophical conviction, you also made the very difficult choice not to respond to the invasion with violence and to reconcile, relentlessly and enthusiastically, your unconditional condemnation of the injustice done to Tibet with your appeal to the Chinese authorities for a sincere dialogue. You draw the strength of your resistance from your spirituality, from a profound respect for mankind and for life, and from your faith in the unity of the world’s human community. You have brilliantly demonstrated, like Mahatma Gandhi, like Nelson Mandela and like Andrei Sakharov, that the peaceful expression of a noble cause can bring understanding, respect and sometimes victory.
In 1989, the Nobel peace prize symbolised the international community’s recognition of you and your tireless non-violent action. Thanks to you and your people, throughout the world, Tibet’s cause has never been buried by indifference. It is perceived as a just cause, and the younger generations are no exception to this.
On 11 September, the world was horrified to see the new face of a monstrous form of terrorism. Since we have seen how those events have led to the danger of misunderstanding between civilisations, the message which you are to address to the Europeans today is of universal and particularly topical importance. I am convinced that this message, by means of our Parliament, will have a profound resonance throughout Europe and beyond. I therefore invite you to take the floor, your Holiness."@en1
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