It was a good question, to which Yu Wuzhen, then director of Tibet's foreign affairs office, had no good answer.

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As Director of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Greece from 1976 to 1995, he had represented the Ministry in the case of the Continental Shelf of the Aegean Sea in front of the International Court of Justice (The Hague) in 1976.

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