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Tibet

Volume 704: debated on Thursday 23 October 2008

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Lord Alton of Liverpool

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What steps they have taken, in advance of the G8 summit in July, to facilitate a meeting between President Hu Jintao and the Dalai Lama to discuss the situation in Tibet. [HL4462]

The Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
(Lord Malloch-Brown)

We did not seek to facilitate any meeting between President Hu Jintao and the Dalai Lama. However, my right honourable friend the Prime Minister raised the situation in Tibet when he met President Hu at the G8 summit.

Since then the Prime Minister has raised Tibet in discussions with President Hu and Premier Wen in August, and again with Premier Wen in New York in September.