The newspaper report does not quote the entire Cabinet Circular, but says It refers to the ‘events planned for March-end and early April’. Alka Acharya, Honorary Fellow, ICS & Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New DelhiĪ day before India’s new foreign secretary made his first standalone visit to Beijing from February 23-24, 2018, he sent out a note to the Cabinet secretary, requesting him to issue a ‘classified circular advisory advising all Ministries/Departments of the Government of India as well as State Governments not to accept any invitation or to participate in the events being organised by the ‘Dalai Lama set-up’ to commemorate the start of the sixty years of exile of the Dalai Lama in India.’ The Cabinet secretary in turn issued a Circular/Advisory to the ‘senior leaders’ and ‘government functionaries.’ Interestingly, this Circular, as reported in a Indian Express article ( external link), said it was ‘not desirable’ to participate in the events of the ‘ Tibetan leadership in India. Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. We respect Tibetans’ right to select, educate, and venerate their own leaders, like the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama, according to their own beliefs, and without government interference,” the spokesperson said.įormerly an independent nation, Tibet was invaded and incorporated into China by force 70 years ago, following which Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and thousands of his followers fled into exile in India and other countries around the world.Ĭhinese authorities maintain a tight grip on Tibet and on Tibetan-populated regions of western China, restricting Tibetans’ political activities and peaceful expression of cultural and religious identity, and subjecting Tibetans to imprisonment, torture, and extrajudicial killings. ![]() “The United States also supports Tibetans’ religious freedom and their distinct religious, cultural, and linguistic identity. State Department spokesperson, when asked about Blinken’s meeting with Dongchung, told RFA in an email that Washington respected “the Dalai Lama’s dedication to the rights of all people, including Tibetans around the world.” Beijing claims the right to name his successor and the 86-year-old Dalai Lama says that any future Dalai Lama will be born outside of China.Ī U.S. The Tibetan Policy Support Act of 2020 affirms the right of Tibetans to choose their next Dalai Lama, whose advancing age has brought to the fore uncertainties in recent years over his possible successor. “President Joe Biden said that if elected, his administration will meet with the Dalai Lama and work on resolving the Tibetan issue, and the administration also as mandated by last year’s Tibet Policy and Support Act 2020, I think this visit reassures Biden administration’s commitment to Tibetan issue”. contacts with the CTA shows that President Joe Biden is delivering on his campaign promises regarding Tibet, says Tenzin Lhadon, a research fellow at the Dharamshala, India-based Tibet Policy Institute. ![]() “This will also send a message to the Indian government, the European Union, and all those countries who had been waiting for years for some kind of initiative on Tibet, and they could join too,” he said. ![]() Secretary Blinken met with the Dalai Lama’s representative openly, but Xi Jinping had to visit Tibet in secret,” Kranti said. “It is a very interesting contrast that has happened within just one week. Chinese state media did not cover the visit until two days after it happened. Kranti said the meeting sent a message to Beijing and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who made an unannounced visit to the Tibetan capital Lhasa last week. It simply shows a big change for the Tibetan movement.” Vijay Kranti, a Sino-Indian analyst and journalist, told RFA’s Tibetan Service the meeting represented a “very significant diplomatic development at the international level. ![]() Secretary of State Antony Blinken held a meeting with a representative of Tibet’s exile government in New Delhi, India Wednesday, a move that Tibet analysts said showed Washington’s commitment to supporting Tibetan rights in the face of harsh Chinese rule.īlinken met in the Indian capital with Ngodup Dongchung, a representative of the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan exile government based in Dharamsala, a northern Indian city that has hosted the Dalai Lama since he fled his homeland in 1959.
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