- The US president and the religious leader will meet at the White House
- Beijing asks the US. que "cancele inmediatamente los planes de reunión"
- De celebrarse "perjudicará muy gravemente" bilateral relations
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RTVE.es/AGENCIAS 21.02.2014 – 06:30h
The Chinese Government has urged the president of USA., Barack Obama, to cancel the meeting scheduled this Friday, at the White House with the Tibetan spiritual leader, the dalai lama, y ha advertido que de llevarse a cabo "perjudicará muy gravemente" the ties between the two countries.
In a statement on the Chinese Foreign Ministry website, la portavoz de este departamento Hua Chunying ha agregado que Pekín considera esa reunión una "grave injerencia" of the United States in Chinese internal affairs that "will harm very seriously" bilateral relations.
"Instamos a EE.UU. to sincerely consider China's concerns and immediately cancel meeting plans" between the dalai lama and president obama, Hua added.
La portavoz ha apuntado que "los asuntos tibetanos They are part of China's internal politics y ningún país extranjero puede interferir en ellos", and has reiterated his Government's position that the Tibetan spiritual leader, "en nombre de la religión, lleva mucho tiempo dedicado a la causa del separatismo contra China".
The White House announced this Thursday that Obama will receive the Dalai Lama at the White House for the second time this Friday, after the meeting they held in July 2011.
The meeting, closed to the press, It will be held as part of a visit by the Tibetan leader to the United States, country to which he travels frequently and where on this occasion he will spend three weeks that will also take him to California and Minnesota.
In a statement, the spokesperson for the US National Security Council., Caitlin Hayden, precisó que Obama recibirá al dalái lama por ser éste "un líder religioso y cultural respetado internacionalmente".
Of.uu. apuesta por una "vía intermediaria"
USA, Hayden added., "does not support Tibetan independence" pero sí la "vía intermedia" What the Dalai Lama proposes, "ni asimilación ni independencia".
Washington "apoya firmemente los derechos humanos and religious freedom in China" y está "preocupado por las continuas tensiones y el deterioro de la situación de los derechos humanos en las áreas tibetanas de China", explained the White House spokesperson.
The announcement of the meeting comes after the U.S.. these expressed concern about China's position in a number of areas, from human rights and freedom of expression to territorial claims in the East China Sea.
The Secretary of State, John Kerry, visited Beijing last week on a tour of Asia during which he expressed US concern. by the Chinese declaration of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in that sea.
Kerry, who met with Chinese bloggers during his visit, declaró entonces que en sus conversaciones con las autoridades de Pekín "enfaticé que el respeto por los derechos humanos y el intercambio de información de manera libre contribuye a la fortaleza de la sociedad de un país".
