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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao answers
questions during a press conference after the closing meeting of the
Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great
Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 13, 2009. The
annual NPC session closed on Friday. (Xinhua Photo)
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BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao said here Friday that talks between the central government and the Dalai
Lama may continue if he is sincere and really gives up his separatist attempt.
"Tibet is an inalienable part of China and issues
related to Tibet are China's internal affairs which should not be interfered by
foreign countries," Wen told reporters at a press conference after the National
People's Congress (NPC) closed its annual session.
"Our stance toward Tibet is consistent and clear cut," he said, adding the door is always open for talks with the Dalai Lama if he gives up his separatist attempt.
Wen said the central government held three talks last
year with the Dalai Lama's representatives in response to their request.
"Such talks could continue as long as the Dalai Lama
is sincere, otherwise no substantial results could be made," he told reporters.
Wen said the Dalai Lama was "not a simple religious
figure" but a political exile and "we have full evidence."
"The so-called government-in-exile situated in
Dharamsala is a defacto, theocratic regime and this illegal government was under
direct leadership of the Dalai Lama," he said.
The monk has been traveling around the world and is
quite capable of misleading some political figures, Wen said, adding some
western countries are also trying to use him.
"We should not only listen to what he has said but
also look what he has done," he told reporters.
Wen said the current stability and development of
Tibet has demonstrated that the Chinese central government has carried out
correct policies in the region.
"The situation in Tibet on the whole is stable. The
Tibetan people hope to live and work in peace and stability," Wen said.
"Both China's Constitution and the Law on Ethnic
Regional Autonomy safeguard the freedom and rights of people in Tibet,
particularly in religious belief," the premier said.
He added that the central government has increased
fiscal input to Tibet to accelerate the region's economic development and to
improve the well-being of farmers and herders.
"The Tibet Autonomous Region will continue following
the opening-up policy for the sake of its own development," Wen said.
Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet
history
BEIJING, March 10
(Xinhua) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his supporters started an
armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve Tibet's feudal serfdom and
split the region from China.
On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed
that Tibetans have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the
former feudal serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.
Playing with outside forces,
"religious figure" stakes heavy on de facto
secession
BEIJING, March 9
(Xinhua) -- As the anniversary of his exile approaches, more evidence has
surfaced that the Dalai Lama and his followers have pursued a long road of
splitting up the homeland despite allegations of the "nonviolent" middle way.
Explicitly acknowledging his "middle way" of nonviolence a
failure, the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist warned the Chinese government of
possible future confrontations in the Himalayan region. Full story
Dalai by no means a religious figure,
but a political one
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Dalai Lama is "by no
means a religious figure, but a political figure," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi said here Saturday.
The Dalai Lama and his followers insist to establish the
so-called "Greater Tibet" on one quarter of the Chinese territory. They want to
drive away the Chinese armed forces deployed on its own territory, and all the
Chinese people of other ethnic groups who have been living in Tibet for
generations, Yang told a press conference on the sidelines of the annual
parliamentary session.
Dalai Lama is not qualified for
talking about human rights
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- As the most unstable element
for Tibet and representative of serf owners, the Dalai Lama is not qualified for
talking about human rights, said a senior official here Friday afternoon.
"There is no historical evidence or present ground for the
so called 'Greater Tibet' and 'high degree of autonomy', which are also against
the will of the Tibetan people," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet
Autonomous Region, told a press conference on sideline with the annual session
of the National People's Congress (NPC).
Dalai Lama group's sabotage biggest
obstacle to Tibet's development
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Sabotage from the Dalai Lama
group remains the biggest obstacle in the way of Tibet's development, Lhasa
Mayor Doje Cezhug said Friday.
Doje made the remarks at a panel discussion of lawmakers
from Tibet.
