Seventeen Point Agreement
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 a document pertaining to the status of Tibet within 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. The 14th Dalai Lama ratified the agreement in the form of a telegraph on 24 October 1951.
| Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet | |
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Tibetan plenipotentiaries signing the agreement | |
| Signed | 23 May 1951 |
| Location | Qinzheng Hall, Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China |
| Ratified | 24 October 1951 |
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| Ratifiers | 14th Dalai Lama |
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| Full text | |
| The Agreement of the Central People's Government and the local government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful liberation of Tibet at Wikisource | |
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| 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 | ||||||||||
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| Seventeen Point Agreement | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 十七條協議 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 十七条协议 | ||||||||||
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| Tibetan | བོད་ཞི་བས་བཅིངས་འགྲོལ་འབྱུང་ཐབས་སྐོར་གྱི་གྲོས་མཐུན་དོན་ཚན་བཅུ་བདུན་ | ||||||||||
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However, the 14th Dalai Lama repudiated the agreement nearly eight years later on 18 April 1959, when he issued a statement declaring that the agreement was made under duress. The Central Tibetan Administration, which was formed after 1960, considers the agreement invalid, while Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, who led the Tibetan delegation during the agreement's negotiations, reported that there was no duress involved. The validity of the agreement continues to be a source of controversy.