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Special envoys of the Dalai Lama arrived in China to resume talks on the political status of the region as Beijing asked the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to cherish the opportunity of fresh talks.
Representatives of the Dalai Lama,Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen and the Chinese government officials are to meet for their ninth round of talks after a gap of more than a year. At the request of the Dalai Lama,the Chinese Government has arranged for his representatives to come to China for consultation, foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said. We hope the Dalai Lama will cherish this opportunity and respond positively to the request of the central government, the spokesman said.
The talks will be the first since November 2008,when the Tibetans handed over a memorandum emphasising their demands for autonomy were in line with the Chinas constitution. The talks broke down and ended in mutual recrimination as Beijing insisted it would not compromise on its position that Tibet was an integral part of China. But Beijing kept the doors open for future negotiations saying it would continue talks despite serious divergences.
A spokesman for the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala,where the Tibetan leader lives in exile said that the talks were part of a process to find a mutually agreed solution. The stand of the Dalai Lama is clear. We want the problem to be solved through dialogue.
