Dalai Lama should not be a big issue: Chinese NGO

Thursday, November 26, 2009

PTI
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The Dalai Lama arrives to begin a three day religious talk, at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharmsala, India, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after a failed uprising against China, leads a self-declared government-in-exile in India. (AP Photo/Ashwini Bhatia)

Chandigarh , Nov 26 (PTI)-- A Chinese NGO today said Tibetan spiritual guru Dalai Lama should not be a "big issue" between India and China.

"Dalai Lama should not be a big issue between our relations with India," director general of Asia-Africa Department of Chinese People's Association for Friendship with foreign countries, Lin Yi, told a news conference here.

Asserting that politicians and different people may hold their own viewpoint on the Tibet issue, Yi, however, stressed that "Everybody knows that Tibet is territory of China".

"This ( Tibet) is a domestic issue of China. Different people may have different views, but the stand of Chinese government is always the same," she said.

She said there may be politicians around the world who have their own views on Tibet but added they were entitled to hold such views.