09 April 2008
Tibetan task force seeks talks with Beijing
(AFP) The Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala offered to travel to Beijing to resume a dialogue about their homeland's future. "We want to reopen the talks to resolve the Tibetan issue through the process of dialogue and whenever it is convenient for the Chinese authorities our special envoys could travel to Beijing", said spokesman Thubten Samphel, who is also a senior official of the CTA. He was speaking during a three-day meeting of the dialogue task force established by the Dalai Lama. The meeting was called to assess the situation in Tibet following the recent unrest. It was clarified that even after six rounds of inconclusive talks with Beijing since 2002, there is no departure from the "the Middle Path" approach advocated by the Dalai Lama.