Dalai Lama not a 'separatist', envoys tell China

Envoys of the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday they had urged China in talks last week to stop labelling the exiled Tibetan leader a separatist, and to engage with him on resolving Tibet's future.

Envoys of the Dalai Lama said on Tuesday they had urged China in talks last week to stop labelling the exiled Tibetan leader a separatist, and to engage with him on resolving Tibet's future.

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In a statement issued a day after their return from meeting with Chinese government representatives in China, the two envoys said they had refuted Beijing's portrait of the Dalai Lama as a pro-independence activist bent on personal and political empowerment.

"We called upon the Chinese side to stop these baseless accusations against His Holiness and labelling him a separatist," the statement said.