Mr. Speaker. during November of 1988. an eightmember bipartisan congressional staff delegation visited India and Nepal to investigate the current status of the Tibetan refugee population. They also looked into the present attempts at negotiation between the Dali Lamas governmentinexile and authorities of the Peoples Republic of China. The picture they brought back for us is one of hope and despair. Their report informs us that the Tibetan culture and religion. both highly evolved and sophisticated. are threatened with extinction by policies of the Peoples Republic of China. The latter have dragged their feet at attempts to negotiate a peaceful settlement.