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| No change in policy towards Tibet: |
| No change in policy towards Tibet: US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 6-October-2009
3:26:14 AM |
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The Obama administration has made it clear that there has been no change in US policy towards Tibet even as it decides to hold talks with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama after President Barack Obama's visit to China scheduled in November.
This is for the first time since 1991 that the Dalai Lama would not be visiting the White House during his stay in Washington. The Dalai Lama arrived in Washington on Monday on a five-day visit, during which he would be meeting key Congressional leaders.
"The US government thinks that he is an internationally revered religious and cultural figure. He's a Nobel prize laureate. The President has decided that he will meet with the Dalai Lama at a mutually agreeable time. I think that there was an announcement that it would be after his trip to China," the State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
Arguing that nothing much should be read into this, Kelly said: "I wouldn't necessarily read anything into the decision beyond what it is, is that we've decided to meet with the Dalai Lama because of our respect for his position, the fact that he is a revered spiritual leader."
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