The Hokkaido Toyako G8 Summit will be held in Japan on July 7-9th, 2008. The Chinese president, Hu Jintao, is invited too. It is an opportunity for the G8 leaders to discuss and formulate a strategic plan to resolve the Tibet issue before the Olympics begin one month later.

The past informal dialogues between the Tibetan government in exile and the Chinese have achieved little, so the Free Tibet Team Japan began the campaign to have a moderated dialogue between the Dalai Lama and Hu Jintao at the Summit in Japan.

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5/29/08 Update: The Free Tibet Team Japan has created an excellent new petition site, so act now to facilitate a Tibet-China dialogue.

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After thousands of Japanese protested at the torch relay in Nagano, a newly formed initiative, Save Tibet Network, organized 4,200 strong public members. This group called for a free Tibet during Hu Jintao’s visit in Japan. Within one month, an astonishing 32,000 signatures were collected in Japan for a petition to urge the Japanese government, the United Nations and the Chinese government to act immediately to solve the Tibet issue.

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