MEXICO | SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
Lobsang Sangay, Tibetan Prime Minister, in Wake up with Loret.
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Outside the People's Republic of China, Tibetans have built a parallel reality. After the Tibetan revolt 1959, the first movement against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, The Dalai Lama fled to India along with around eighty thousand Tibetans. once there, established what would later be known as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA, by its acronym in English) in the city of Dharamsala (Himachal Pradesh, northern india), which has served as the Tibetan government in exile until today.
The Dalai Lama remains the highest religious authority of Tibetan Buddhism, but in 2012 Lobsang Sangay was chosen as Kalon Tripa (prime minister) and has complete control of the government.
Visiting Mexico, Lobsang Sangay asks the Mexican Government to ask the Chinese Government to respect the autonomy of Tibet and the rights of Tibetans.
“We understand that they have a relationship with China, that the meeting with the president of China is positive, but now, for the sake of a better business relationship, must propose Mexican values; talk about human rights and freedoms, because if you talk about money and morals it is a good agenda. “We would like you to talk about human rights in Tibet”, stated at the Despierta con Loret table.
Sangay recalled that Freedom House, an independent organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy in the world, “publishes a report every year, according to which Syria is the country with the least freedom and the penultimate place was for Tibet”.
Reporters without borders, according to the premier, “He said that coverage related to Tibet was more difficult than coverage on North Korea”.
Lobsang Sangay said China's occupation of Tibet is related to its natural resources, because “Tibet is the water tower of Asia; 1,400 Millions of people depend on the water that flows in the rivers that flow from Tibet towards Asia; Tibet water refreshes bodies of water around the world, including Mexico; “Tibet has more natural resources than Mexico and China wants to exploit them.”.
He warned that China's occupation in Tibet "is gaining strength; does 60 years few countries paid attention to the expansionist policy of the Chinese Government, but now they realize.
The Tibetan premier pointed out that “the message for Mexico and Latin America is to see what happened to Tibet so that they understand the expansionist policy.”.
He indicated that the Chinese in Tibet, “They first occupied a road and now, unless you understand how they extended their occupation from a road.”.
Lobsang Sangay expressed his wish “that Mexico supports our midpoint proposal.”: a genuine autonomy of Tibet inscribed in the Constitution of China”.
He recalled that the United States “supports the one-China policy and support for the genuine autonomy of Tibet.”.
He stressed that they want “support from the people of Mexico for the sake of respect for human rights in Tibet.”.
