2013 09 11

Lithuanian president receives petition signed by 6,000 people supporting Tibet

A few hours before the arrival of Tibet's spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Lithuania on Wednesday, the country's President Dalia Grybauskaitė was presented with a petition, signed by over 6,000 people, urging to include the Tibet issue into the European Union's (EU) agenda.
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Lithuanian activists collected over 6,000 signatures under a petition supporting Tibet / Tibeto rėmimo grupės nuotr.
Temos: 1 Tenzinas Giatso

The petition was handed over by nine supporters of Tibet's freedom who came to the President's Office with flags of Tibet.

"We do not demand much, we just want the Tibet issue to appear on the EU agenda, so that China is reminded about the problems in Tibet and that the Chinese administration is addressed on the official level," Vytis Vydūnas, the organizer of the campaign, told BNS.

In his words, the EU should call for negotiations on "Tibet's actual autonomy, Tibetan culture and its unique nature."

The Dalai Lama, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is scheduled to arrive in Vilnius on Wednesday afternoon from Latvia.

This is his third visit in Lithuania.

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