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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8078
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/tibet

Dalai-Lama calls for dialogue and support for Tibet - Chinese mission had called for his visit to be cancelled

Strasbourg, 24/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, European Parliament President Nicole Fontaine welcomed the Dalai-Lama in a "spirit of universal brotherhood" during a solemn plenary session devoted to the spiritual leader of Buddhism. "In 1959, at the time of the invasion of Tibet which was to rob you of your freedom, you were obliged at a tender age to make the heart-rending decision to flee from Lhasa, not with any intention of abandoning your people, but because exile was the only...

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