EU urges China to show restraint in China
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders urged China to show restraint in Tibet following an outbreak of violence in Lhasa on Friday, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.
"The Slovenian EU presidency proposed a text that we accepted in three paragraphs which ask for restraint, which asks for those arrested for protesting for Tibet ... to be released," he told a news confernce after a summit of the 27-nation bloc in Brussels.
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