The President of the National Olympic Committees Mario Vazquez Ran, said that any boycott of the 2008 Beijing Olympic games would be a “serious error”.

“Any politician who is pushing for a boycott is committing a serious error,” Vazquez said, without mentioning French President Nicolas Sarkozy by name. “For me a total boycott, a partial boycott, is totally out of the question.”

He went on to say:

“This (Tibet) is a Chinese problem and China will have to deploy all its ability and experience to solve its problem,” Vazquez said. “Nobody should use the games as a way to solve this problem.”

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