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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 China hopes the French side would show its
clear-cut attitude toward Tibet-related issues to help recover relations between
China and France as quickly as possible.
Answering a question on the recent problems in
China-France relations, Wen said, "This time, the problem is with the
high-profile meeting between the French leader and the Dalai Lama, and this
concerns the core interests of China and France, and also the Chinese people."
"It has been 40 years since the establishment of
diplomatic ties between China and France. Despite some twists and turns in the
course of development, this relationship on the whole has kept moving forward,"
Wen said at a press conference following the end of the annual session of the
National People's Congress.
Wen hoped the French side to make clear-cut stance on
Tibet-related issues and help recover the China-France relations as quickly as
possible.
"This not only serves the interests of both China and
France, but also the interests of China and the European Union," he said.
Wen reiterated that 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.
"Our stance toward Tibet is consistent and
clear-cut," he said, adding that the door is always open for talks with the
Dalai Lama if he gives up his separatist attempt.
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi also urged
France to make "positive signs" on issues of major concern to China at a press
conference here last Saturday.
Yang said the recent problems in China-France
relations were not the responsibility of China, and he was confident about the
long-term development of the bilateral relations.
Premier says China's policy on Tibet right
BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- Stability and development of Tibet has demonstrated the Chinese central government has carried out the right policies in the region, Premier Wen Jiabao said here Friday. Full story
China lodges solemn representation over U.S. Tibet resolution
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- China on Thursday lodged a formal complaint over a U.S. Congress resolution on Tibet.
"The Chinese government and people are strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed to the approval of a Tibet resolution by the U.S. Congress on Wednesday," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a regular press briefing. Full story
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.
