IOC chief declines comment

Published March 16, 2008

SALINAS (Puerto Rico), March 15: International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge said on Saturday he was not fully informed about violent protests in Tibet and that efforts to improve human rights in China, the site of the Summer Olympics, are not his group's responsibility.

“It is not our job,” Rogge told reporters. “We are not an activist organization.”

Rogge declined to comment on Friday's violent protests in Tibet against Chinese rule, saying he did not know much about it.—AP

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