17. Nov 2009
Dalai Lama ready for talks with Beijing
(AFP) The Dalai Lama's office has said the Tibetan leader was ready for the resumption of talks with China as suggested by President Barack Obama during his trip to Beijing. "We are always willing to have talks with China and we hope both sides - the Chinese as well as the Tibetans - are true to their intentions", Chime Choekyapa, spokesman for the Dalai Lama, told AFP. He acknowledged that more radical Tibetan groups were against talks, but said the Dalai Lama was committed to dialogue in his quest for "meaningful autonomy" for Tibet from China.