Thursday, April 11, 2013

Swiss government avoids Dalai Lama...

The Dalai Lama will meet members of Swiss parliament for the first time during a visit to Switzerland starting on Saturday but members of the seven-person federal cabinet will not be receiving the Tibetan spiritual leader.

“We are going to profit from this rather exceptional meeting with the Dalai Lama to receive information from him,” Robert Cramer, a Green party MP from Geneva told the ATS news agency.

“You should know that a group of parliamentarians representing all the parties support him,” said Cramer, who is a member of a Swiss-Tibet interparliamentary group.

Conscious of its ties with China, the Swiss federal government has apparently avoided meeting with the Dalai Lama, who fled from Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese Communists suppressed an uprising in the state.

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The attitude of the Swiss government “does not denote much courage, but it’s not a revelation,” Cramer said.

“It should be, on the other hand, a preoccupation (for the government).”

 He noted that Switzerland has the largest Tibetan colony outside of Asia. Full story...

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