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| India and Tibet : vol.1 | |
| インドとチベット : vol.1 |
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引用情報
258 THE TERM S
Government after the events of 1900, and should insist on
the razing of all fortified position's which might impede the
course of free communication between our frontier and
Lhasa, and on the prohibition of the importation of arms
into Tibet or their manufacture within the country except
with their special permission.
Finally the Government of India discussed what
might be done if His Majesty's Government declined to
agree to the appointment of a representative at Lhasa. In
that case they would urge that a Resident Agent should
be posted at Gyantse, whose functions would primarily be
to supervise and maintain the trading facilities which we
must undoubtedly secure. Although the duties of such
an agent would be mainly commercial, they would
necessarily comprise that of seeing that the Convention or
treaty which we should eventually conclude with the
Tibetan Government was observed in all respects. The
agent should, therefore, have the right of proceeding to
Lhasa, as occasion might require, to discuss matters with
the Chinese Amban or with the high officials of the
Dalai Lama.
In making the terms of his appointment Government
considered that the grounds and conditions of our self-
restraint in this matter should be clearly indicated to the
Tibetans. It should be explained that His Majesty's
Government consented to waive their claim to the appoint-
ment of a Resident Agent at Lhasa solely out of regard
for the Tibetan desire to maintain their freedom from
contact with European influence at the political and
religious capital of their country ; that they were pre-
pared to forego this demand, so long as the Tibetan
Government preserved an attitude of isolation from
external affairs, and avoided all intercourse with other
European Powers ; but that, in the event of any de-
parture by the Tibetans from this policy in the future,
the British Government would reserve to themselves the
right to require the acceptance of an agent at the capital
itself.
Government considered, however, that this alternative,
the least which could be contemplated, was not calculated,
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