The Dalai Lama Tours Sweden
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The leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, is now in Sweden for a series of speaking engagements. Our correspondents caught up with him in the city of Lund to bring us this report.
The Dalai Lama is now touring Sweden. And as usual, he's doing it on a tight schedule.
After speaking at seminars in Stockholm, he flew straight to Lund, where he met with the press -- and gave more seminars.
The Dalai Lama has confirmed that he is resigning from politics. He also said that political campaigns to elect a successor are well under way in Dharamsala -- the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
[The Dalai Lama, Lund, Sweden]:
"Now it's the right time to retire from political responsibility. After four centuries, the Dalai Lama is quite popular and among Tibetans -- I think 99 percent fully trust me -- so at such occasion voluntarily, happily, proudly ending that system."
His announcement to resign has shocked Tibetans. After all, it's the Dalai Lama who has been holding talks with the Chinese regime, pressing for religious freedom and human rights in Tibet.
And with the Dalai Lama out of the political picture, Tibetans worry about progress in talks with the Chinese regime.
[Norsang Drikung, Chairman of Tibetan Community in Sweden]:
"Until now peoples republic of China they don't recognize the Tibetan Government. They recognize the Dalai Lama and until now there is a lot of dialog between China and Tibetans, with his Holiness representant. When he is not leader for the Tibetan government, so I don't know how the Tibetan exile government and China will talk. Probably the dialog between China and Tibet will be very difficult to go on."
But the Dalai Lama doesn't seem too worried and says that there are at least three good politicians that could fill his shoes.
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The leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, is now in Sweden for a series of speaking engagements. Our correspondents caught up with him in the city of Lund to bring us this report.
The Dalai Lama is now touring Sweden. And as usual, he's doing it on a tight schedule.
After speaking at seminars in Stockholm, he flew straight to Lund, where he met with the press -- and gave more seminars.
The Dalai Lama has confirmed that he is resigning from politics. He also said that political campaigns to elect a successor are well under way in Dharamsala -- the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
[The Dalai Lama, Lund, Sweden]:
"Now it's the right time to retire from political responsibility. After four centuries, the Dalai Lama is quite popular and among Tibetans -- I think 99 percent fully trust me -- so at such occasion voluntarily, happily, proudly ending that system."
His announcement to resign has shocked Tibetans. After all, it's the Dalai Lama who has been holding talks with the Chinese regime, pressing for religious freedom and human rights in Tibet.
And with the Dalai Lama out of the political picture, Tibetans worry about progress in talks with the Chinese regime.
[Norsang Drikung, Chairman of Tibetan Community in Sweden]:
"Until now peoples republic of China they don't recognize the Tibetan Government. They recognize the Dalai Lama and until now there is a lot of dialog between China and Tibetans, with his Holiness representant. When he is not leader for the Tibetan government, so I don't know how the Tibetan exile government and China will talk. Probably the dialog between China and Tibet will be very difficult to go on."
But the Dalai Lama doesn't seem too worried and says that there are at least three good politicians that could fill his shoes.