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China to Dalai: Curb Tibetan Cong activities
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ASIANAGE on 03 July, 2008 04:26:27
 
Beijing, July 3: The latest talks between China and Dalai Lama’s envoys failed
to make any breakthrough on the vexed Tibet issue, with hawkish Beijing
demanding that the exiled leader take "concrete" steps to curb the anti-Beijing
"plots" of the India-based Tibetan Youth Congress.
During the talks which began here on Monday, the Chinese officials told the
Dalai Lama’s envoys that the Buddhist leader must not support any activity to
disturb the Beijing Olympics in August.
The officials said exiled leader should "not support plots to fan violent
criminal activities and take concrete steps to curb the violent terrorist
activities of the Tibetan Youth Congress".
The Chinese demands were conveyed by Mr Du Qinglin, head of the united front
work department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee during his
meeting with the Dalai Lamas representatives Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen.
Mr Du told the self-exiled leaders envoys that the central governments policy
towards the Dalai Lama "is consistent and explicit and the door of dialogue is
always open", state-run Xinhua news agency said quoting a statement issued by
the department.
During the latest round of talks, second since the most violent anti-government
protest erupted in Lhasa in March, Chinese officials also demanded that the
72-year-old monk should "openly and explicitly" promise and prove through his
action not to support any activity linked to Tibet’s independence.
Representatives of the Dalai Lama, living in exile in India, were here for the
talks, which according to the Tibetan government in exile were scheduled for two
days from Tuesday.
Both sides had held the first round of inconclusive talks on May four in
Shenzen amid mounting international pressure after riots broke out in Tibet
during the most sustained anti-China protests in two decades. The Chinese
statement gave no further details, including whether another round of talks
would be held.
Ever since the riots erupted in Tibet in March, China has vilified the Dalai
Lama, accusing him of having masterminded the violence. —PTI