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Tibet: Talks with China Could Resume
2007-05-17
Closed-doors talks between the Dalai Lama’s envoy and Chinese authorities could resume soon. This would be the sixth round of a series of inconclusive talks dating back to 2002.
Below is an article written by Rowan Callick and published by the Australian:
A FRESH round of closed-door talks between the Dalai Lama's Tibetan Buddhist organisation and the Chinese Government may be about to start in Beijing.
A Tibetan source said yesterday that the talks would be led by Lodi Gyari, the Dalai Lama's chief envoy to the US.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry was yet to confirm or deny the meeting last night.
This would be the sixth round of talks in the series that began in 2002 - all so far inconclusive.
While meeting with the Dalai Lama's group, the Chinese Government is at the same time intensifying its diplomatic efforts to deny the Buddhist leader the oxygen of well-publicised meetings with high-profile leaders.
Hence the strength of the debate in Australia about who the Dalai Lama will meet during his visit next month.
He planned to visit Brussels last weekend, to meet members of the European Parliament and attend a conference of non-government organisations that back him.
But the Belgian Government stressed the intensity of China's displeasure, and the Dalai Lama cancelled his visit. Belgian Prince Filip is to travel to China next month.
China's Premier, Wen Jiabao, said at his annual press conference at the close of the parliament in March: "We are willing to have consultations with the Dalai Lama on his personal future."
But, he added, the "high degree of autonomy for Tibet" sought by the Dalai Lama was unrealistic.
"In his request, he actually asked for all the Chinese troops to withdraw from Tibet, and he even asked for all the Han (ethnic Chinese) people to leave Tibet," he said.
"It is very easy for us to see whether he is trying to sabotage or undermine the unity of the country."
The Dalai Lama has described the new railway into Tibet built by Beijing, which carries about 130,000 passengers a month, as "a second invasion of Tibet".
Envoy Lodi Gyari recently urged the Chinese Government to release from house arrest the second-ranking allegedly re-born Tibetan spiritual leader, the Panchen Lama, who in 1995 was identified by the Dalai Lama when he was six but has not been seen in public since then.
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