Dharmshala: 4 July 2008Special Envoy for H.H the Dalai Lama, Mr. Lodi Gyari and Envoy Mr. Kelsang Gyaltsen ended days of talks with Chinese government officials Thursday with no immediate reports of substantive progress on easing tensions in Tibet and Tibet issues, something the United States, France, UK and other foreign governments have being strongly urging china since unrest in Tibet.
A report on the talks in state-controlled media contained no concessions on the part of the Chinese in allowing more Culture and religious autonomy for Tibet and Tibetan people in the wake of world wide protests this spring against Chinese rule.
Slightly, the report repeated by the state media that the conditions that the Tibetan spiritual leader H.H the Dalai Lama would be compulsory to meet before the Chinese would agree to eighth round talks between two sides before the end of the year 2008.
Most considerably, Dalai Lama must to prove that he does not support activities that would disturb next month's Beijing Olympic Games 2008, and agree to "concretely curb" violent activities of groups advocating Tibetan independence.
The two envoys left Beijing on Thursday afternoon, and they will brief the media on the latest round of discussions they held with the representatives of the Chinese leadership in Beijing after briefing His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Kashag and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile tomorrow morning 5 July 2008 as according to Tibetan official media report.
Some Tibet experts had hoped for good signs that the talks were more than a Chinese attempt to take international focus off Tibet until after the Beijing Olympic Games 2008. The experts found only slight shifts in which to take hearts to hearts.
"After all they are implicitly accusing His Holiness the Dalai Lama of 'supporting' violence instead of directly insisting that he masterminds it," said Thomas, a Tibet scholar from Austria. "I can't see this going down very well in Tibet or anywhere else."
