Dy Speaker to Attend Freedom of the City Award Function in Italy

Wednesday, 12 December 2007, 3:57 p.m.

A file picture of Deputy Speaker Dolma Gyari

Dharamshala: Dolma Gyari, the deputy of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, will attend an award ceremony for conferring the "Freedom of the City" of Turin to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at the city hall on 16 December.

The deputy speaker will be accompanied by under secretary of Tibetan Parliamentary Secretariat, Tenzin Choedon during a week-long visit to Italy.

Prior to the award function, the deputy speaker will attend a meeting with the mayor of Turin, Mr Chiamparino and with other officials of the city.

Also during the visit, the deputy speaker will attend a press conference by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Turin's Arturo Toscanini.

Mrs Gyari will attend a meeting with Turin's main regional authorities and official representatives of Association of Commons, Provinces and Regions for Tibet and other local associations.

Mrs Gyari will return to Dharamshala on 23 December.

  (www.tibet.net is the official website of the Central Tibetan Administration of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.)

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