Statement of policy

It is the policy of the United States— (1) to support and promote human rights of Southern Mongolians in the People’s Republic of China, including the fundamental freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly, and religion or belief, and rights related to arbitrary detention, discrimination, and other abuses; (2) to support the aspirations of the Southern Mongolian people to safeguard their cultural and linguistic heritage, including the ability to use and promote their own spoken and written language, and protect their traditional pastoralist way of life that they have maintained for thousands of years; and (3) to press the Government of the People’s Republic of China to allow the Southern Mongolian people the ability to enjoy autonomy promised them.