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Article: Dalai Lama offers to meet rebuffed by China's leaders Beijing's foreign ministry spokesman again rebukes Tibetan spiritual leader
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- Oakland Tribune
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- March 21, 2008
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BEIJING -- The Dalai Lama said Thursday that he was ready to meet
China's leaders to discuss violent protests in Tibet, but China
nearly ruled out any such possibility, assailing the exiled Tibetan
as deceitful and even criminal.
Speaking in Dharamsala, the hill station in northern India that's
the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, the Dalai Lama said the
talks could take place once violence died down in Tibet.
"I (am) always ready to meet our Chinese leadrs, particularly Hu
Jintao," the Dalai Lama said, referring to China's president and
military chief.
The Dalai Lama said he'd like such a meeting to occur outside
China but would travel to Beijing if the outlook seemed positive. ...