CHINA SHOULD GIVE US TRUE AUTONOMY, SAYS TIBETAN MINISTER

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China should give us true autonomy, says Tibetan minister.

Tibetan groups organise a panel discussion on “Rethinking India’s Sino-Tibet Policy in the light of Jiabao’s India visit” in New Delhi.

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NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 15, 2010) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)

1. GUESTS COMING AND SITTING FOR THE MEETING

2. REPORTERS SITTING

3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TEMPA TSERING, MINISTER, TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE, SAYING: “The Dalai Lama has for 30 years or over 30 years is trying to reach a peaceful resolution with the Chinese. He has consistently put forward a proposal to the Chinese government saying that we are not demanding a resolution of Tibetan independence, we will not demand separation of Tibet from China provided the Chinese government gives the Tibetan people genuine autonomy to the entire area where the Tibetans are living under one administration.”

4. REPORTERS SITTING

5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TEMPA TSERING, MINISTER, TIBETAN GOVERNMENT IN EXILE, SAYING: “There must be genuine, cordial relationship between India and China but then a relationship that is true must be based on trust, but, then China as we all know is when we look at the history, China’s greed for territory, it’s kind of a insatiable taste for more land.”

6. REPORTERS SITTING

7. THE ONGOING MEETING

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9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) JAYA JAITLEY, FORMER PRESIDENT OF SAMATA PARTY, SAYING: “The whole issue is that if they believe that they can do this with the totalitarian form of government, how can any other country in the world especially large democracies ever engage with China when you are not playing with the same rules and if you are talking about trade and the Prime Minister is bringing new trade delegation to India, we know as persons who work in the fields of handicrafts for instance, China has taken over a huge market of handicrafts all over the world because they don’t sell handicrafts, they sell mechanized things, sending container loads and they call it handicrafts and they sell it at one hundredth the price of what it should costs.”

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STORY: Tibetan groups organised a panel discussion on “Rethinking India’s Sino-Tibet Policy in the light of Jiabao’s India visit” in New Delhi on Wednesday (December 15).

Tempa Tsering, Minister Tibetan Government-in-exile while attending the seminar said that His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been constantly trying over the last 30 years to put forward proposals before the Chinese for an amicable resolution of the Tibet issue.

“The Dalai Lama has for 30 years or over 30 years is trying to reach a peaceful resolution with the Chinese. He has consistently put forward a proposal to the Chinese government saying that we are not demanding a resolution of Tibetan independence, we will not demand separation of Tibet from China provided the Chinese government gives the Tibetan people genuine autonomy to the entire area where the Tibetans are living under one administration,” said Tsering.

However, Tsering emphasised on building true and cordial relationship between the two countries.

“There must be genuine, cordial relationship between India and China but then a relationship that is true must be based on trust, but, then China as we all know is when we look at the history, China’s greed for territory, it’s kind of a insatiable taste for more land,” said Tsering.

Jaya Jaitley, former president of Samata Party of India addressing the gathering said that it is difficult to deal with a totalitarian government like China.

“The whole issue is that if they believe that they can do this with the totalitarian form of government, how can any other country in the world especially large democracies ever engage with China when you are not playing with the same rules and if you are talking about trade and the Prime Minister is bringing new trade delegation to India, we know as persons who work in the fields of handicrafts for instance, China has taken over a huge market of handicrafts all over the world because they don’t sell handicrafts, they sell mechanized things, sending container loads and they call it handicrafts and they sell it at one hundredth the price of what it should costs,” she said.

Wen Jiabao’s visit to India is the first by a Chinese premier in five years.

Like the recent visits of U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Nicholas Sarkozy, Wen Jiabao has also brought with him more than 400 business leaders to India, underscoring the growing commercial ties between the two countries.

The two countries, one-time rivals who went to war in 1962, are now entwined by their booming trade relationship and rising global clout. Both have stood together to resist Western demands in world trade and climate change talks.

Closer economic ties are driving much of the goodwill. China is India’s largest trading partner and bilateral trade is expected to hit $ 60 billion in this fiscal ending March 2011, though it is skewed heavily in China’s favour.

After his visit to New Delhi, Jiabao would travel to Pakistan, India’s nuclear-armed rival, for two days state visit.