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PARIS, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The French Foreign
Ministry reiterated on Friday that France does not support Tibet independence.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier made the
remark after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged France to clarify its position on
Tibet-related issues.
"We have absolutely not changed our position. That
is, we support the territorial integrity of China and refused to accept
separatism and Tibet independence," Chevallier said.
Earlier on Friday, when answering a question raised
by a reporter from the French newspaper Le Figaro at a press conference after
the closing of the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress in
Beijing, Premier Wen urged the French side to clarify its position on
Tibet-related issues to facilitate the restoration of Sino-French relations.
"This serves not only the interests of both China and
France, but also the interests of China and the European Union," Wen said.
Sino-French relations were strained after French President Nicolas Sarkozy insisted on meeting with the Dalai Lama last December when his country held the rotating presidency of the European Union.
Chinese premier wants France to clarify attitude toward Tibet-related issues
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." Full story
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.
