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Dharamsala/New Delhi, May 18
In one other step that signifies a rolling again of India’s coverage of going comfortable on Tibetan points so as to not antagonise Beijing, senior US diplomat and US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Uzra Zeya arrived in Dharamsala on Wednesday for a gathering with the Dalai Lama.
This would be the first assembly between the US Special Coordinator and the Dalai Lama in India after six years and follows a digital deal with by the revered Buddhist monk at a convention on Budh Purnima organised by the Ministry of Culture, which was additionally addressed by three union ministers.
Zeya was given a rousing welcome when she arrived on the Secretariat of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala. “A high-level visitation from the US signifies the latter’s momentous support for the Tibetan issue,” stated a CTA assertion.
The Special Coordinator’s go to comes shortly after the profitable go to to Washington final month by Sikyong (President) Penpa Tsering of the CTA the place the latter met with the US Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues together with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and different bipartisan members of Congress, in addition to officers on the State Department.
Hours after the information of the assembly went viral, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian had stated the “Tibetan government-in-exile is a separatist political organization with the agenda of pursuing Tibetan independence.”
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