What, that there are human rights abuses in Tibet?
MINISTER CREAN: Well, I’m not going to go into the detail, I’ll just say it was the opportunity to raise with my visit, as we’ve undertaken to do, to raise the human rights issues, but through the appropriate forum. I think that the decoupling of that from the trade talks is itself significant. JOURNALIST: What did they say then when you raised it? MINISTER CREAN: Well, that’s for our discussions. I think that they are fully aware of our concerns. The question now is how that’s responded to, and of course that’s a matter entirely for them. JOURNALIST: Minister, just so that we get this right, you expect the Chinese to come back with a better offer on tariffs in the next couple months before the June negotiations, is that right? MINISTER CREAN: No, no, no, no, no. Not before the June negotiations. The negotiations are scheduled for June, we’re expecting them to come back and they’re not the only negotiations that we’ve agreed to undertake. There will be further negotiations this year. W
