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China confirms Dalai Lama envoy talks, no apparent concessions
BEIJING, July 3 Kyodo - China confirmed Thursday that it held talks with envoys from the Dalai Lama this week, but gave no indication that any breakthroughs or concessions were made in the negotiations.
The official Xinhua News Agency said a senior Communist Party official, Du Qinglin, told the envoys further talks could be held before the end of the year if the Dalai Lama proves by word and deed that he does not support activities aimed at disrupting the Beijing Olympics and rejects violent, separatist activities in Tibet.
The report also appeared to suggest that the Chinese government largely blames the Tibetan Youth Congress for organizing the riots in Tibet and neighboring provinces earlier this year, an allegation exiled Tibetan groups have repeatedly denied.
''The Dalai Lama should openly and explicitly promise and prove in his actions not to support activity to disturb the Beijing Olympic Games, not to support plots to fan violent criminal activities, not to support and concretely curb the violent terrorist activities of the Tibetan Youth Congress,'' Du was quoted as saying.
The Tibetan government-in-exile has said its envoys will not speak publicly about the talks -- which are thought to have been held this Tuesday and Wednesday in Beijing -- until they have report back to the Dalai Lama.
But sources close to the Tibetan government-in-exile in India have said the envoys were hoping the Chinese authorities would scale back security measures to ease tension in the region after the riots and antigovernment protests earlier this year.
Tibetan officials say thousands of people were arrested in the security crackdown after the violence and that a ''climate of fear'' still exists in the region.
The Dalai Lama has also said the protests were a spontaneous outburst of anger and frustration against Chinese government policies that fail to respect Tibet's language, religion and culture, and that the region should be given greater, genuine autonomy within China.
This week's talks in Beijing were the seventh round of formal negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama's envoys since 2002.
China has been under diplomatic pressure to reopen talks with the envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader after the violence earlier this year, particularly from the European Union and the United States.
Tibet was reopened to foreign tourists and journalists last month and China says it has released about 1,000 of around 1,300 people who were detained in Lhasa after the rioting in March.
Chinese government officials have dismissed any suggestion that the riots were due to a failure of policy in Tibetan regions, saying that Tibet's religion and culture are respected and that the violence was an organized attempt to split the region from the rest of China.
The Dalai Lama fled into exile from Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
The official Xinhua News Agency said a senior Communist Party official, Du Qinglin, told the envoys further talks could be held before the end of the year if the Dalai Lama proves by word and deed that he does not support activities aimed at disrupting the Beijing Olympics and rejects violent, separatist activities in Tibet.
The report also appeared to suggest that the Chinese government largely blames the Tibetan Youth Congress for organizing the riots in Tibet and neighboring provinces earlier this year, an allegation exiled Tibetan groups have repeatedly denied.
''The Dalai Lama should openly and explicitly promise and prove in his actions not to support activity to disturb the Beijing Olympic Games, not to support plots to fan violent criminal activities, not to support and concretely curb the violent terrorist activities of the Tibetan Youth Congress,'' Du was quoted as saying.
The Tibetan government-in-exile has said its envoys will not speak publicly about the talks -- which are thought to have been held this Tuesday and Wednesday in Beijing -- until they have report back to the Dalai Lama.
But sources close to the Tibetan government-in-exile in India have said the envoys were hoping the Chinese authorities would scale back security measures to ease tension in the region after the riots and antigovernment protests earlier this year.
Tibetan officials say thousands of people were arrested in the security crackdown after the violence and that a ''climate of fear'' still exists in the region.
The Dalai Lama has also said the protests were a spontaneous outburst of anger and frustration against Chinese government policies that fail to respect Tibet's language, religion and culture, and that the region should be given greater, genuine autonomy within China.
This week's talks in Beijing were the seventh round of formal negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama's envoys since 2002.
China has been under diplomatic pressure to reopen talks with the envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader after the violence earlier this year, particularly from the European Union and the United States.
Tibet was reopened to foreign tourists and journalists last month and China says it has released about 1,000 of around 1,300 people who were detained in Lhasa after the rioting in March.
Chinese government officials have dismissed any suggestion that the riots were due to a failure of policy in Tibetan regions, saying that Tibet's religion and culture are respected and that the violence was an organized attempt to split the region from the rest of China.
The Dalai Lama fled into exile from Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
