Relinquish Tibet Quest: China to Dalai Lama
(PTI | Beijing | May 23, 2004)
China on Sunday asked the Dalai Lama to "truly relinquish" his quest for "Tibetan independence" and rejected his plea for implementing the "one country, two systems" formula that Beijing exercised over Hong Kong and Macao in the remote Himalayan Region.
The Dalai Lama in exile must "truly relinquish his stand for Tibetan independence, and do something beneficial to the progress of China and the region of Tibet in his remaining years," the Chinese government said here in a white paper titled "Regional Ethnic Autonomy for Tibet". Attacking the 68-year-old Nobel Laureate for fight for 'genuine autonomy' for his Himalayan homeland, White Paper, the first-ever on the Tibetan issue, charged that the "Dalai clique" has constantly attacked Tibet's regional ethnic autonomy, in the international arena, as being "devoid of essential contents," and demanded the "one country, two systems formula."
"This arrangement is totally untenable," the Chinese government said.
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