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Dalai Lama not legal representative of Tibetans: China | Beijing has dismissed Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama's claim that he is 'legal representative' of Tibetan people.
"The Chinese government and the government of Tibet autonomous region under its
leadership are the only representatives of Tibetans," Xinhua quoted Zhu Weiqun,
executive vice minister of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the
Communist
Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, as saying. Du Qinglin, vice chairman of
the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference,
met with the Dalai Lama's private representatives, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen,
last week in Beijing. The private representatives "have no legal status to discuss
with us the affairs about Tibet autonomous region," Zhu said. "They are only the
Dalai Lama's private representatives, so they can only talk about the prospect
of the Dalai Lama, at most, the prospects of a small party around him" he added.
The talks were suspended for more than a year after the meeting in November 2008.
"The major reason lies in the fact that they (the Dalai Lama side) openly declared
to cease the contacts and talks with the central authorities," Zhu pointed out. |
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