http://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet_media-04252008164648.html
Dalai Lama Wants Media in Tibet
2008-04-25
Tibet=92s exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, has called on China to allow
journalists into Tibet to investigate the recent crackdown on anti-
Chinese protests there, as China said it was ready to hold talks with
one of his envoys.
RFA/Shen Hua
Dalai Lama meets with Chinese media representatives after visiting
Colgate University in New York, April 24, 2008.
Speaking to Chinese re****ters here after a visit to Colgate University
April 24, the Dalai Lama again rejected Chinese allegations that he
aims to separate Tibet from China and said previous contacts between
Beijing and the Tibetan exile government hadn=92t been "meaningful."
He said he wrote a letter March 20 to the Chinese central authorities
proposing talks. =93Whenever we meet, they always blame us for the Tibet
violence. Therefore there is no meaningful dialogue, only contacts,=94
he said.
On Friday, Beijing said it would meet with an envoy from the Dalai
Lama, following weeks of calls from world leaders for dialogue in the
wake of anti-government protests in Tibet.
=93In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for
resuming talks, the relevant department of the central government will
have contact and consultation with Dalai's private representative in
the coming days," the official Xinhua News Agency said, quoting an
unidentified official. It gave no details.
Xinhua said China had committed only to a meeting and appeared to
attach routine conditions for opening a dialogue with the Dalai Lama,
including a demand that he stop plotting for Tibet's independence =93so
as to create conditions for talks.=94
Kalsang Gyaltsen, the Dalai Lama=92s special envoy in Europe, has
acknowledged that he was contacted by Chinese authorities about the
proposed talks but has given no details.
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