- Title: INDIA: Dalai Lama says India, US have their limitations on Tibetan issue
- Date: 22nd November 2009
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (NOVEMBER 21, 2009) (ANI) EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL DALAI LAMA BEING WELCOMED (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) DALAI LAMA INAUGURATING HOSPITAL WARD PHOTOGRAPHERS VARIOUS OF DALAI LAMA WALKING THROUGH HALLS DALAI LAMA AT PODIUM CLOSE OF DALAI LAMA VARIOUS OF EVENT/AUDIENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) DALAI LAMA, THE TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER, SAYING: "I am quite sure what ever way, Prime Minister can do something, can appeal to something, to his friend, he will do, I have no worry. Then of course we should be practical, realistic. So the government of India and the United States also, you see, have some limitations, that also there is a reality." MEDIA DALAI LAMA EXITING ROOM WITH OTHERS (SOUNDBITE) (English) DALAI LAMA, THE TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER, SAYING: "He actually, I think publicly as well as behind the scenes, I think he really talks with Chinese leaders very seriously about Tibetan issue, so that I very much appreciate, thank you." DALAI LAMA LEAVING
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- Country: India
- Topics: International Relations
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- Story Text: Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said on Saturday (November 21) that New Delhi and Washington have their limitations on the Tibetan issue.
The Dalai Lama was reacting to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's three-day state visit, starting on November 23.
Addressing reporters on the sidelines of inaugurating a hospital ward in the national capital New Delhi, the Dalai Lama expressed hopes that Prime Minister Singh would discuss the Tibetan issue with Obama.
"I am quite sure what ever way, Prime Minister can do something, can appeal to something, to his friend, he will do, I have no worry," he said.
"Then of course we should be practical, realistic. So the government of India and the United States also, you see, have some limitations, that also there is a reality," he continued.
The Dalai Lama also said he appreciated what he perceived to be efforts on Obama's behalf to discuss the issue of Tibet with the Chinese leadership during his first visit to Beijing.
"He actually, I think publicly as well as behind the scenes, I think he really talks with Chinese leaders very seriously about Tibetan issue, so that I very much appreciate, thank you," said the Dalai Lama.
Obama used a youth forum in Shanghai to speak out for freedom on the Internet and other rights. However, the broadcast was restricted within China which meant only a relative few outside Shanghai heard Obama's words.
The real test for Chinese assertiveness will come if Obama meets the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader scorned by Beijing as a "separatist."
Some in Washington have raised the prospect of such a visit. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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