Official: Dalai Lama lacks sincerity for contact with central government

　　BEIJING, June 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Zhu Weiqun, the Administrative Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC met with a delegation of foreign reporters on June 12. Zhu briefed the reporters on the stability and development in Tibet, and answered their questions.　

　　The reporters are from Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, Poland, and Albania.

　　Photo shows Zhu Weiqun, the Administrative Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC. Zhu met with a delegation of foreign reporters on June 12,2009, briefed them on the stability and development in Tibet, and answered their questions. (Photo: tibet.cn)

　　Reporter from Albanian: The Dalai Lama intends to have contact with the Chinese government, do you rule out the possibility of the contact?

　　Zhu: The Chinese government's attitude towards contacting with the Dalai Lama has always been consistent, clear-cut and principled. However, the Dalai Lama has always been using the contacting as a tool to split the motherland and befuddle the world opinion. He constantly changes his attitude and is completely devoid of credibility.

　　I'll give a brief account of the context of the situation.

　　In the late 1970s, after China launched the opening and reform policies, the Chinese Central Government began contacting with the Dalai Lama to give him an opportunity to be back on the right track. Many senior central leaders have met with the relatives or private representatives of Dalai, and conducted persuasion and education on them.

　　However, those people showed no intention to correct their wrongs, and on the contrary, saw the central government's good will as an exploitable opportunity. On one hand they raised separatist propositions such as "high degree of autonomy for a greater Tibet" and "the future Tibet should enjoy the same treatment for Taiwai," which Deng Xiaoping and other leaders rebuffed then and there; on the other, they, sent back by the Dalai Lama, taking advantage of being allowed by the central government to visit Tibet, spread separatist fallacies and incited people unaware of the truth to create disturbance. Thus, those people themselves become the fountainhead of any instability of Tibet.

　　Zhu Weiqun, the Administrative Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC, met with a delegation of foreign reporters on June 12,2009. He briefed the reporters on the stability and development in Tibet, and answered their questions. (Photo: tibet.cn)

　　In 1989, the so-called "June 4 disturbance" occurred in Beijing. In the early 1990s, changes happened to the socialist system in the Soviet Union and some East European countries, with some of them disintegrated. The Dalai Lama miscalculated the situation and thought his chance had come. He declared on many occasions that Tibet was soon to be independent and splitted from the motherland, and he would no longer talk with the central government of an unstable China.

　　When the 10th Panchen Lama passed away in 1989, we invited the Dalai Lama to attend the memorial meeting on behalf of Zhao Puchu, president of the Buddhist Association of China. But the Dalai Lama gave a flat refusal to the invitation and made a formal announcement in 1993 to break off the contact with the central government.

　　What happened afterwards was clear not only to the Dalai Lama but also to most people of the world: China wouldn't be chaotic, let alone disintegrated. Therefore, the Dalai Lama had no option but to plea for contact again with the central government. The central government has always be tolerant and lenient to him and agreed to his plea anyway.

　　In this manner, in the six years from 2002 to last year, nine contacts were conducted. In the nine contacts, the Dalai Lama realized that his whole bunch of separatist stuff stood no chance of acceptance by the central government. Especially in the contact last November, the Dalai clique put forward a so-called "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People," which was severely lashed by the central government. As a result the Dalai clique once more announced a halt to talks with the central government.

　　Looking back at such a history, anyone not blind to the facts is able to see that the central government has always been striving to get the Dalai Lama back on the right path, and it is none other than the Dalai Lama himself that lacks the minimum sincerity and closes the door to contacts for two times.

　　Zhu Weiqun, the Administrative Vice Minister of the United Front Work Department of CCCPC, met with a delegation of foreign reporters on June 12, 2009. He briefed the reporters on the stability and development in Tibet, and answered their questions. (Photo: tibet.cn)

　　Some people of the Dalai's group recently spread rumors on many occasions that they have intentions to hold talks with the central government, but the latter refused. This is also a lie meant to deceive world opinion.

　　First, the talk last November was broken by the Dalai clique, not us. Out attitude was clear and the door to talks remained open, while the private representative of the Dalai Lama declared in front of my colleagues and me that they would no longer talk. Afterwards, the so-called "government-in-exile" held again a "special meeting" of the Tibetans in exile in India, on which they decided to halt "negotiations" with the central government. The incident is known to the world. If the Dalai Lama sincerely wants to continue contacting with the central government, shouldn't he make some explanations and examine his mistakes in these two scenes?

　　Second, the Dalai Lama and his clique have announced openly for many times that any future talks shall only be concerned on, and based on, his "Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for the Tibetan People." Making something the central government has already rebuffed and totally negated as a precondition and base for future talks shows not a bit of sincerity for contacting, but only that some in that clique are suffering from paranoia and not able to look at the situation objectively.

　　Thirdly, there is a fixed and effective channel for the central government's contact with the Dalai Lama, who, this time, abandoned this channel of communication and kept on making an uproar in front of foreign media. This indicates that he was only putting on a political show. If he wants to talk, he should have been talking to us, the central government, why crying in front of the foreigners?

　　All in all, if the Dalai Lama still intends contact with the central government, the first thing he has to seek is his own sincerity.