The Dalai Lama has opened his 12-day visit to France focusing on religion with a stop at a Buddhist institute and a temple outside Paris.
He also offered a message of goodwill to China as host of the Summer Olympics. The Tibetan spiritual leader is spending most of the duration of the Beijing Olympics in France, with only one political event on his schedule. A closed-door meeting with French lawmakers is planned for Wednesday. A meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy was dropped after Beijing warned Sarkozy of "serious France passes constitiutional reforms ...
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Ebadi calls on media to foster peace ... consequences" if he met him. China accuses the Dalai Lama of stirring up unrest in Tibet. Sarkozy is trying to repair ties with China, damaged by his initial threat to boycott the opening of the Olympics and a series of pro-Tibet protests as the torch passed through the French capital.
(Deutsche Welle)
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