EFE – New Delhi
02/12/2017
Obama mantuvo una "reunión de amigos" with the Dalai Lama in New Delhi
El expresidente de Estados Unidos Barack Obama y el dalái lama mantuvieron una reunión informal "entre dos amigos" in New Delhi during the visit that ended yesterday the former ruler to the Indian capital, A source close to the Buddhist leader informed Efe today.
"Fue una reunión entre dos amigos, two Nobel Prize winners, to discuss a better world, more peace, more compassion, una educación mejor y holística", said the Dalai Lama's representative in the Indian capital, Tenpa Tsering.
The source specified that the meeting took place yesterday in New Delhi, where Obama was to speak at the Hindustan Times Leaders Meeting and lead an event organized by the foundation that bears the former ruler's name.
Since he arrived at the White House in 2009 and until he left the Oval Office last January, The former US president has met privately with the Dalai Lama on at least four other occasions., the last of them in June 2016.
As had happened before, en aquella ocasión Pekín mostró con anticipación su "firme oposición" to the meeting between the Tibetan leader and Obama.
in 1959, after the revolt in Tibet against communist China, The Dalai Lama had to flee and took refuge in India, where the authorities allowed him to install the Tibetan Government in exile in the northern city of Dharamsala.
The Dalai Lama currently defends that Tibet is part of China and assures that the only thing he wants for that region is investment and development..
