Dharamsala, A US State Department official Monday met the Dalai Lama in this Himachal Pradesh town, the seat of the Tibetan government in exile, sources said.
It was not immediately known what Melissa R. Pitotti, programme officer in the Bureau Of Population, Refugees and Migration for Asia and the Near East, and the Dalai Lama discussed.
Pitotti had said on arrival here Saturday she would convey her “impressions” about the manner in which US funds were being utilised by the Tibetan government in exile.
She would “supervise the funds that the Tibetans had been receiving from the US government”, Pitotti had said.
The funds are routed through the Bureau Of Population, Refugees and Migration for Asia and the Near East.
During her three-day visit that ended Monday, Pitotti, who was accompanied by an unidentified US official, visited several offices of the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala.
The Tibet Fund in New York allocates some $2 million a year to various Tibetan organisations. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees provides $127 million a year to run the Tibetan Reception Centre in Nepal, where a majority of Tibetans fleeing their homeland arrive.
Officials say around 2,500 Tibetans flee annually and the majority of them make a beeline for Dharamsala.
