| 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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| 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 |
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| 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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| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhōngyāng Rénmín Zhèngfǔ hé Xīzàng Dìfāng Zhèngfǔ guānyú hépíng jiěfàng Xīzàng bànfǎ de xiéyì |
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| Jyutping | Zung1joeng1 Jan4man4 Zing3fu2 wo4 Sai1zong6 Dei6fong1 Zing3fu2 gwaan1jyu1 wo4ping4 gaai2fong3 Sai1zong6 baan6faat3 dik1 hip6ji5 |
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| Traditional Chinese | 十七條協議 |
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| 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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| Wylie | bod zhi pas bcings 'grol 'byung thabs skor gyi gros mthun don tshan bcu bdun |
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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 an agreement between the Local Government of Tibet and the Central People's Government of China. It was signed by plenipotentiaries of the CPG and the Tibetan Government (Ganden Phodrang) on 23 May 1951, in Zhongnanhai, Beijing. The 14th Dalai Lama ratified the agreement in the form of a telegraph on 24 October 1951 even though the United States informed him that in order to receive assistance and support from the United States, he must depart from Tibet and publicly disavow "agreements concluded under duress". The Dalai Lama stated that the Tibetan local government, ecclesiastic and secular folk, unanimously support the agreement, and will actively support the People's Liberation Army in Tibet in consolidating national defense, drive out imperialist influences from Tibet, and safeguard the unification of the territory and the sovereignty of the Motherland.
More than 7 years after the ratification of the agreement, after his arrival in India on 19 March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama issued statement that the agreement was made under pressure of the Chinese Government, and the Dalai Lama and his Government tried their best to adhere to the 17 Point Agreement. On 20 June 1959, he stated that the agreement was between two independent and sovereign States, and the consent of the government was secured under duress. Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, who led the Tibetan delegation during the agreement's negotiations, claimed that there was no duress involved. A. Tom Grunfeld pointed out that the unabashed adulation in the poem written by the 14th Dalai Lama hardly demonstrates someone unhappy with the Chinese presence in Tibet. The Central Tibetan Administration, which was formed after 1960, stated in 2021 that the agreement was not signed with the mutual consent of both parties, the agreement had no legal validity even though it was ratified by the 14th Dalai Lama.