China Displeased with Dalai Lama's Visit to Slovenia: FM Spokesman

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China Displeased with Dalai Lama's Visit to Slovenia: FM Spokesman

China has officially expressed its strong displeasure with Slovenia for allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Slovenia and meet its top leaders during his visit to the country.

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China has officially expressed its strong displeasure with Slovenia for allowing the Dalai Lama to visit Slovenia and meet its top leaders during his visit to the country.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao voiced this displeasure in Beijing Saturday, when asked to comment on the Dalai Lama's meeting with Slovenian leaders during his visit to Slovenia as guest of the University of Ljubljana.

Liu said Slovenia allowed the Dalai Lama to visit it and arranged its top leaders to meet him despite repeated offers of the Chinese side for negotiations.

As is widely known, the issue of Tibet is related to China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Liu said. The Slovenian move has provided an arena for the Dalai Lama to peddle the "independence of Tibet", which boosts his arrogance for splitting the motherland, gravely impairs China's sovereignty, hurts the Chinese people's feelings and dignity, and harms Sino-Slovenian relations.

The Chinese side sternly asks the Slovenian side to take prompt measures, effectively observes the principle that Tibet is an integral part of China, and promise that any similar incident will never occur again in the future.

China Restates Opposition to Dalai Lama Visit: Earlier Report

China opposed all forms of invitations to and meetings with the Dalai Lama from government officials of any country or region, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan reiterated on May 14.

Kong was replying to a journalist's question about the Dalai Lama's impending visit to Australia, and noted that China had repeatedly stated the attitude of its government on this issue.

Kong said that the Dalai Lama was not simply a religious personage, but was once the biggest owner of serfs in old Tibet. The feudal system in old Tibet was darker than that of Europe's middle ages, he said.

The spokesman noted that the Dalai Lama was also a politician in exile disguised as a religious figure and engaged in activities designed to split China and damage the country's national unity.

China was opposed to the Dalai Lama's political activities in any capacity, and in any country or region, which aimed to split China and damage its national unity, Kong stated.

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