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Dalai Lama Blames China

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Reuters
August 3, 2000

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said on Thursday he was worried about not being invited to the U.N. "millennium summit" in New York and blamed China for the decision. The Dalai Lama will instead conduct a peace ceremony from the High Himalayas while the summit is on at the end of August. It will be beamed via satellite to peace workers around the globe.

"His Holiness the Dalai Lama has not been invited to attend The UN Millennium Peace Summit in New York," his office said in a statement. "The decision not to invite the Dalai Lama appears to be a result of pressure from the Chinese Government...(and) deeply concerns peace workers worldwide," it added.

The United Nations refused to comment.

China, which annexed Tibet in 1951 and has drawn wide recriminations for its human rights abuses in the region, refuses to acknowledge the Dalai Lama, who fled into exile during a bloody 1959 uprising.

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