Day: June 25, 2003

Recognition of tar not a concession, says India

Maintaining that it had made no concessions, India today said its recognition of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) as part of the territory of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was consistent with its stand since 1954.

WWF Nepal Honors Tibetan Lama for Conservation Work

Karma Sonam Rinpoche, a Tibetan lama residing in Phoo Village in remote Manang region of Nepal, has been honored with the Abraham Conservation Award for this year by the World Wildlife Fund Nepal (WWF) for his contribution towards protecting the endangered blue sheep and snow leopards in Nepal.

Full text of China India Declaration

China and India Monday evening signed the Declaration on Principles for Relations and Comprehensive Cooperation Between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of India.

The Controversy On Tibet

Despite all the brouhaha and claims by the opposition there is no substantive change in the formulation on reference to Tibet in the joint declaration.

Hindi Chini Bhai Bhai, Hindi Tibbat Bye Bye

What one must have expected of the Dharamsala administration was an outright condemnation of Indian Prime Minster’s remark on Tibet being a part of China. Condemnation did come but not from the Tibetan exile government but from the Tibetan Youth Congress, the largest NGO of the Tibetan community with a largely different viewpoint

Activists from the ‘Council for Tibet Freedom’

Activists from the ‘Council for Tibet Freedom’ burn pictures of Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and China’s President Hu Jintao and a Chinese national flag during a demonstration in the central Indian city of Bhopal June 25, 2003. Tibetan exiles in India believe improved relations between India and China would help negotiations between the Dalia Lama and Beijing over Tibet, a Tibetan spokesman said.

Photo by Raj Patidar

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama adresses supporters in Choglamsar, some eight kms east of Leh. India opened its frontiers to the Tibetan spiritual leader in 1959 when China crushed a Tibet uprising.

Photo by Tauseef Mustafa