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Dalai Lama's Envoys to Hold Talks Sunday with Chinese Officials |
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Saturday, 3 May 2008
Tibet's government-in-exile says talks between envoys of the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials will begin Sunday in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Spokesmen for Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said in India that the delegates will arrive in Hong Kong Saturday and travel to neighboring Shenzhen for meetings on Sunday.
A statement Friday said the Dalai Lama's envoys were expected to hold informal talks with Chinese officials Saturday at an undisclosed location.
The statement said the two envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, will convey the Dalai Lama's concerns about how China has handled protests in Tibet and other Tibetan regions of China. The envoys will also offer suggestions on how to bring peace to the region.
Chinese media have not mentioned the planned meeting, which will be the first since protests in Tibetan regions began in March.
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama said the envoys will meet with China's United Front Work Department.
The last time China hosted talks with Tibetan representatives was July of last year. The chief Tibetan envoy, Lodi Gyari, said the discussions were candid, but that the two sides remained far apart.
The Dalai Lama says he is opposed to violence and is seeking meaningful autonomy for Tibet, but China accuses him of masterminding the recent unrest and of secretly promoting Tibet's independence.
China says 18 civilians and one policeman died when protests turned violent on March 14th. But the Tibetan government-in-exile says Chinese security forces killed more than 200 Tibetan protesters, many of them in Lhasa following the riot.
By VOA News
03 May 2008 |
Saturday, 3 May 2008
China-Tibet
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