Kathmandu December 1 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Asia-Pacific region Director Mrs Janeth Lim is currently on a visit to Nepal. She has visited the Bhutanese refugee camps in western Nepal and today she paid a visit to the Tibetan reception centre in Nepal, and met with over thousand newly-arrived Tibetans waiting for transit to India where their spiritual and temporal leader the Dalai Lama resides. The UNHCR Asia-Pacific director checked the condition of the Tibetan reception centre and assured continued support to the newly-arriving Tibetans as before. The United Nations representative to Nepal Mr Abraham Abraham was also present along with other UNHCR staffs.
Over several thousand Tibetans young and old, monks and lay people, flee Tibet every year from Chinese oppression
This is the first time that a UNHCR Asia-Pacific director has paid a visit to the Tibetan reception center(Nepal).
