By Phurbu Thinley
Dharamsala, Jan 14: The exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama will address the First European Tibetan Youth Parliament to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, from April 9-11 this year.
The three-day conference themed “We are Tibet” is organised by the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) to mark its 40th founding anniversary.
The one-hour session with the Dalai Lama on the second day of the conference will be open for all European Tibetan Youth Parliamentarians. The Tibetan leader will address the conference and will respond to “five most popular questions” from the participants, the organisers have said.
“We feel very honoured that H.H. the Dalai Lama will attend the Saturday morning and has agreed to address the participants of the conference and to answer questions,” the organising committee said in a statement on its website.
Participants are asked to file questions and from them ten questions will be shortlisted and published on the website. The five questions will then be finalised by an online public poll.
The conference will witness Tibetans in Europe aged between 16 and 40 years discussing domestic and foreign policy issues and new methods for the Tibetan freedom movement.
A range of programs, including discussions on the 2011 Elections and “Question and Answer” session with potential candidates running for the office of Kalon Tripa (Prime Minister) and Tibetan parliamentary elections, are being planned for the conference.
“We want to give the Tibetan youth the opportunity to participate democratically by freely expressing their views on important issues as well as to develop new political solutions for Tibet, thereby strengthening the Tibetan youth’s perspective in the Tibet movement,” the statement said.
The conference will come up with a resolution, which, the organisers said, will be presented to the Tibetan Government-in-Exile through a representative.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be in Zurich from April 9 to 11 to participate in the “XX Mind and Life Conference on Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems – A Dialogue Between Economics, Neuroscience and Contemplative Sciences” at the Congress Center Zurich .
During the the visit, the Nobel Peace winner will also give a public talk on “Universal Responsibility and Economics” organized by the Mind & Life Institute at Hallenstadion in Zurich.
