To the G8 Sherpas!

Hello,

Thank you for supporting this campaign! Among a lot of feedback we have received there was a suggestion that we should reach out to the G8 Sherpas. We need your help to contact and urge your nation’s G8 Sherpa to immediately invite the Dalai Lama to the Summit in Japan. A Sherpa is the personal representative of a head of state of government who as such prepares an international summit like the annual G8.

Please take action now - the G8 Summit is only one month ahead! Thank you.

Below is a sample letter that you can send by email or as a letter to all of the G8 Sherpas. The contact list for the G8 Sherpas is below the letter.

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Attention G8 Sherpa (insert the name of the Sherpa)

I understand that you are the G8 Sherpa for (insert country name). We would like to ask you to urge the G8 Summit leaders, especially the Japanese PM, Fukuda, to invite the Dalai Lama to the Summit this July in Japan. The purpose of the visit is to have a direct dialog with Hu Jintao, mediated by the other G8 members, to resolve the Tibet-China issue.

Despite the talks between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama’s representative after the unrest in Tibet, the Chinese government has not taken any action to resolve the terrible situation in Tibet. Tibetans are still being arrested, tortured and killed today.

The G8 Summit is a great opportunity to introduce the Dalai Lama to Hu Jintao in a peaceful environment and have a concrete and constructive dialog about resolving the Tibet issue including the following:

- Immediately admitting foreign media into Tibet
- Allowing the International Red Cross and other humanitarian organizations into Tibet
- Permit UN investigators to enter and conduct investigations in Tibet
- Stopping its vilification of the Dalai Lama
- Releasing all who were detained since the 10th of March
- Stopping its crackdown and withdraw armed security forces
- Stopping its forced nationalistic re-education campaign

There are a very large number of people worldwide working to make this happen. Please take a look at this campaign’s website at:

http://fttj.org

The Tibet issue affects everyone. We implore you to act to help make this a reality.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

( Insert your name here)

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Below is the list of the Sherpas of the G8 countries:

JAPAN

[ Summit Sherpa ] Masaharu Kohno (Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs)
Address,Kasumigaseki 2-2-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-8919 Japan
Tel : +81 3-3580-3311
Fax : +81 3 5501 8430
Fax : +81 3 5501 8128
E-mail: *add his name in the subject : http://www.mofa.go.jp/feedback/note.html

USA

[ Summit Sherpa ] Daniel Price
Address: Council on Environmental Quality
722 Jackson Place, NW
Washington, DC 20503
tel: (202) 395-5750
fax: (202) 456-6546
Direct Fax of his assistant name : Paul Brown
fax: (202) 456-9280

GERMANY

[ Summit Sherpa ] Bernd Pfaffenbach (The undersecretary of state in
the Finance Ministry and Chancellor Merkel’s G8 sherpa)
Address: unknown
FAX; +49 30 1861 55105
E-mail: bernd.pfaffenbach@bmwi.bund.de

FRANCE

[ Summit Sherpa ] Jean-David Levitte
Address : Unknown
E-mail : secretariat.levitte@elysee.fr
Add Jean-David Levitte G8 sherpa in the subject.
Fax : 00 33 1 42 92 86 00.

UK

[ Summit Sherpa ] Jonathan Cunliffe (Prime Minister’s Adviser on
International and European Policy, Cabinet Office)
Address: Cabinet Office
Press Office
22 Whitehall
LONDON SW1A 2WH
Tel: 020 7276 0174
Fax: 020 7276 0618
E-Mail: jon.cunliffe@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/

RUSSIA

[ Summit Sherpa ] Arkady Dvorkovich （Head of Presidential Experts Directorate)
Address: Presidential Administration of Russia
Kremlin, Sobornaya Ploshad, Moscow, Russia
E-mail: Dvorkovich_AV@gov.ru
http://www.eerc.ru/details/People.aspx?id=998

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

[ Summit Sherpa ] Joao Vale de Almeida ( Head of Cabinet of European Commission President)
Address : Unknown
Assistant for G8 E-mail: alejandro.ulzurrun@ec.europa.eu
Insert “Att: Joao Vale de Almeida G８sherpa”

CANADA

[ Summit Sherpa ] Leonard Edwards
Adress : 125 Sussex Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0G2
E-mail : leonard.edwards@international.gc.ca
Tel : +(613) 944-4911

Italy New!

[ Summit Sherpa ] Amb. Giampiero MASSOLO

Address : Ufficio Sherpa G8
Palazzo Chigi
Piazza Colonna 370
ROMA
E-mail: g8sherpa@palazzochigi.it

Direct E-mail to Mr. Giampiero Massolo
(vice of the Foreign Affairs minister)
segr-co@cert.esteri.it OR cdr@esteri.it
TEL: +39 06 36918899
FAX: ＋39 06 323 6210