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Obama to meet Dalai Lama after China trip
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - – The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama later this year, denying he kowtowed to China by avoiding the exiled Tibetan leader on his current visit.
The Dalai Lama conferred Tuesday with top congressional leaders who offered him strong support. But for the first time since 1991, the Tibetan leader was visiting Washington without a meeting scheduled with the president.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs denied that Obama had been keen to avoid annoying China, before his first visit to Beijing as president in November.
"In discussions with the Dalai Lama and his staff, we simply agreed that a meeting would be had later in the year," Gibbs told reporters.
"We're concerned about the people in Tibet, and we're concerned about the Chinese," he said.
He noted that the Dalai Lama's top negotiator, Lodi Gyari, had Monday voiced support for Obama's approach and said that the Tibetans had not pushed for a meeting before Obama's visit to Beijing.
"They understand the stronger relationship that we have with China benefits the Tibetan people," Gibbs said.
China sent troops into Tibet in 1950 and earlier Tuesday restated its opposition to foreign nations receiving the Dalai Lama.
China accuses the Dalai Lama of separatism, even though he says he is only seeking greater rights for his predominantly Buddhist people under Beijing's rule.
Foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu said Beijing is "resolutely against the Dalai's engagement in activities aimed at splitting China under any capacity, under any name, and in any country."
"China is resolutely opposed to meetings with the Dalai Lama in any form by officials from any country," he said in a statement issued to AFP.
Obama, who met the Dalai Lama as a senator, sent a high-level delegation to the Tibetan leader's base in the Indian hill station of Dharamshala last month to explain the decision on the meeting.
Critics have voiced outrage over Obama's decision, fearing that China could see it as carte blanche to clamp down in the Himalayan territory.
Republican Congressman Frank Wolf said he had visions of Chinese guards taunting Tibetan prisoners that the United States did not care, while The Wall Street Journal in an editorial blasted Obama as being willing to upset China by raising tariffs on tire imports but not meeting a pacifist, pro-US monk.
The Dalai Lama refrained from criticism of Obama and saluted the United States for its promotion of democracy as he received an award at the US Capitol.
"I think American weapons, military forces, of course some people take seriously," he said.
"But the real greatness of America is your ancestors' principles," he said. "In any case, you must preserve these principles."
Lawmakers gave the Dalai Lama a rousing welcome as he received the inaugural prize for the promotion of human rights named after late congressman Tom Lantos, who arranged the Tibetan's first trip to Congress in 1987.
"US presidents, members of Congress and the American people continue to be inspired by His Holiness' message of peace, non-violence, human rights and mutual understanding," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
Calling Tibet "a challenge to the conscience of the world," Pelosi urged China to seriously engage the Dalai Lama.
"It is our hope that the Chinese government will welcome this opportunity for a peaceful resolution to the issue of Tibet," Pelosi said.
In 2007, President George W. Bush became the first US president to appear publicly with the Dalai Lama when he presented him with the Congressional Gold Medal, an award arranged by Lantos.
Lantos, a Holocaust survivor and passionate advocate for human rights, died four months later of cancer.
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