Talks with China welcome, if serious: Dalai Lama
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday guardedly welcomed China's offer for dialogue, suggesting that the talks will have meaning if these are "serious".
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Saturday guardedly welcomed China's offer for dialogue, suggesting that the talks will have meaning if these are "serious".
"It depends on what kind of talk. If they are serious talks they are most welcome," he told reporters here when asked whether he was happy with China's offer yesterday of talks with his envoys.
"Just mere seeing face to face is not (enough)," said the Tibetan leader soon after he arrived here from the US.
China, under pressure from international community to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, yesterday said it will soon have a meeting with a "private representative" of Tibetan spiritual leader.
Beijing has been insisting that the doors for the dialogue with the Dalai Lama, living in exile in India, were open but he must give up what it called his "separatist activities", stop attempts to "sabotage" the Beijing Olympics and accept Tibet and Taiwan as inalienable parts of China.
The Dalai Lama, whom China has accused of having orchestrated the recent violence in Tibet and elsewhere during the most vicious anti-government protests in two decades that have left 20 people dead, has insisted that he was not seeking independence of Tibet and was ready for a dialogue with the Chinese government.
"It depends on what kind of talk. If they are serious talks they are most welcome," he told reporters here when asked whether he was happy with China's offer yesterday of talks with his envoys.
"Just mere seeing face to face is not (enough)," said the Tibetan leader soon after he arrived here from the US.
China, under pressure from international community to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama, yesterday said it will soon have a meeting with a "private representative" of Tibetan spiritual leader.
Beijing has been insisting that the doors for the dialogue with the Dalai Lama, living in exile in India, were open but he must give up what it called his "separatist activities", stop attempts to "sabotage" the Beijing Olympics and accept Tibet and Taiwan as inalienable parts of China.
The Dalai Lama, whom China has accused of having orchestrated the recent violence in Tibet and elsewhere during the most vicious anti-government protests in two decades that have left 20 people dead, has insisted that he was not seeking independence of Tibet and was ready for a dialogue with the Chinese government.
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