A three-day First European Tibetan Youth Parliament ended on Apr 11 in the Swiss city of Zurich with a three-page resolution for consideration by the exile Tibetan parliament and government. The resolution called for "the introduction of an upper and lower house" to the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, with the election to the lower house being based on "political parties, population and residency". It called for the abolition of "dual voting right" for the clergy and the "removal of reserved seats" for the religious traditions of Tibet.
On the first day, the parliament adopted its rules of procedure and concluded the first plenary meeting by paying tribute to the Tibetans in Tibet for their courageous launch of the 2008 Uprising. The participants then broke up into workshops to discuss topics such as democratisation, activism and resistance, secularisation, relation between the exile Tibetan government and the Tibetan youth and young Tibetans in Europe.