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By John Fox and François Godement / Financial Times
On Wednesday, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier, will travel to Prague for a summit with his European Union counterparts that has perhaps the lowest expectations of any on record. The summit should have taken place last December but was delayed after China withdrew in protest at French [...]
by Kelsang Gyaltsen, Envoy of H. H. the Dalai Lama
The European Union-China Summit will take place on May 20, 2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. His Holiness the Dalai Lama welcomes the summit. He has always spoken out against any idea of isolating or containing China. Instead he has consistently called for the need to bring [...]
theParliament.com
A parliamentary hearing has been told that the fight for Tibetan autonomy will “never end.”
The hardline message was issued on Tuesday by Kelsang Gyaltsen, an envoy of the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader.
Addressing a public hearing organised by the foreign affairs committee, he told MEPs that the Dalai Lama represented the “spiritual and cultural struggle” [...]
Earth Times
Beijing (DPA) - The EU’s top diplomat called Monday on the Chinese government to resume talks with the Tibetan government-in-exile while welcoming a memorandum from Tibetan exiles on their vision of autonomy. “For a long time, the Chinese wanted to see a written position,” EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said of the Tibetan [...]
theparliament.com
A special hearing will be held in parliament next week in a bid to resolve a flare-up in the row between China and Tibet.
Wednesday’s news comes in the wake of new video footage allegedly showing Chinese security personnel violently beating Tibetans.
The hearing, organised by parliament’s foreign affairs committee, will take place on 31 March and [...]
Reuters
BEIJING, January 13 - China hopes ties with Europe will improve now the Czech Republic holds the European Union presidency, but France remains out of favour with Beijing, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is scheduled to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which opens later this month, [...]