Tibetan activist group urges FM Jaishankar to raise Tibet with Chinese leadership

9 months ago

Tenzin Nyidon

DHARAMSHALA, July 16: As Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. S. Jaishankar met Chinese President Xi Jinping on July 15 and Foreign Minister Wang Yi a day earlier in Beijing, the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), the largest Tibetan non-governmental organization in exile, issued an appeal urging India to raise the Tibet issue in all bilateral engagements with China. Released on July 15, the appeal coincided with the first high-level diplomatic engagement between the two nations since the deadly 2020 Galwan Valley clash.

The meetings took place on the side-lines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers’ summit. During his meeting with President Xi, Minister Jaishankar conveyed greetings from President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and briefed the Chinese leadership on the current trajectory of ...

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