Thursday, April 3, 2008

India takes rigid anti-Tibet stand

Press Trust of India
Thursday, April 3, 2008 (Beijing)
According to China, New Delhi has assured that it will not tolerate any political anti-Beijing activities by Tibetans on the Indian territory.For the second time in less than a week, China has briefed India on the Tibet issue.Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi spoke over phone to his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee and exchanged views on bilateral relations, explaining Beijing's 'principled stand' on the Dalai Lama issue, the state media said on Thursday.''Mukherjee said the Tibet Autonomous Region is part of China's territory and India will never tolerate any political anti-China activities by Tibetans on the Indian Territory,'' official Xinhua news agency reported.In the conversation on Wednesday, Yang also told Mukherjee that it had been proved ''and will continue to be proven'' that any scheme by the ''Dalai Clique'', referring to the supporters of the Tibetan spiritual leader, to split and break China was ''doomed to failure.''The conversation comes after China's State Councilor Dai Bingguo's telephonic talk with National Security Adviser M K Naranayan on March 30 when he briefed him on the ''violent crimes'' in Lhasa and ''expounded'' China's stance on and concerns over the Tibet issue.

The UPA government need not have so readily assured China that India will muffle any Tibetan protest activity in India without asking China to assure India that it would give up all its claims over Arunachal Pradesh and Indian territory already occupied by it. Due to communist pressure, the UPA is betraying the Tibetans, just as it is turning a blind eye to Islamic terrorism for Muslim votes.

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