In the backdrop of the Dalai Lama almost giving up hope of brokering a solution to the vexed Tibet issue, his envoys opened talks with Chinese officials in Beijing
DHARAMSALA: In the backdrop of the Dalai Lama almost giving up hope of brokering a solution to the vexed Tibet issue, his envoys on Tuesday opened talks with Chinese officials in Beijing in an effort to realise his dream of securing "genuine autonomy" for his homeland.
The talks began on Tuesday morning and will continue till Wednesday evening, an official in Prime Minister of the Tibetan
government in-exile Samdhong Rinpoche's office said.
He, however, did not divulge details of the talks.
Dalai Lama's envoys Kasur Lodi Gyaltsen and Kelsang Gyaltsen, accompanied by three senior assistants, had reached the Chinese capital on October 30 for the talks.
Information Secretary of the Tibetan government in exile Thubten Samphel said the delegation was earlier taken to Ningxia, a Muslim autonomous region, by the Chinese authorities to show how they handled minority issues.
Samphel said the delegation would return to Dharamsala on November 6 after the latest round of talks, the third since the uprising in Lhasa in March.
The Dalai Lama's envoys, who have been participating in the talks since the first round in 2002, had gone to Beijing for follow up of the seventh round of parleys on Tibet's future as well as on possible return of the Dalai Lama to his homeland which he left in 1959 and fled to India.
The latest round of talks is taking place in the background of disappointment expressed by the Dalai Lama on outcome of negotiations between the two sides so far.
"Things are not improving inside Tibet," the Dalai had said in Tokyo on Monday.
"Our approach failed to bring some positive changes inside Tibet. So criticism is also increasing," he said.
He had also said that his faith in the Chinese government was "becoming thinner, thinner, thinner".
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