Session IX- Closing Session
every day we are closer to the freedom of Tibet. Today we are closer to Tibet’s freedom than yesterday”. Thank you.
Ven.Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok
Firstly, my sincere gratitude to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama for blessing the last six WPCTs with his presence and for the video message for this 7th WPCT. We are also privileged to have the messages of Honourable US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Honourable Representative Jim McGovern for this convention. On behalf of Tibetan Parliament-in–Exile, our co-host Latvian Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet, International Network of Parliamentarians for Tibet (INPAT) and all the delegates present here, I would like to offer my sincere gratitude for their blessings with profound messages. Secondly, I would like to thank Cross-Party group for Tibet-Latvian Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet for co-hosting the 7th WPCT in Riga, Latvia. Although Latvian Parliamentary Support Group for Tibet consented in principle to organize the 7th WPCT in Riga in May last year, it was only after their elections in December that, they were �inally ready to organize the 7th WPCT. Mr. Janis, Coordinator and Chief of Society “Latvia for Tibet, Mr. Sonam Frasi, Representative of London Of�ice of Tibet and our Former Speaker Venerable Khenpo Sonam Tenphel paid a visit to all the venues in Latvia, got in contact with our co-organizer and then we �inalized to organize the 7th WPCT in Riga, Latvia. Thereafter, we took this matter to the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. In December 2018, we sent invitations through the Of�ices of Tibet and we were able to organize the 7th WPCT here in Riga, Latvia. Thus, on behalf of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile and
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