HAMBURG: Tibetan political leader Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay arrived in Germany Monday on a three-day visit. Sikyong will will attend a Sino-Tibetan conference with Chinese intellectuals, activists, writers, Sinologists from Europe, US, Asia and Australia.
On the day of his arrival, Sikyong met with six key journalists in Hamburg and briefed them about the Central Tibetan Administration’s plan to launch the European awareness campaign of the Middle Way Approach. The Middle Way Approach policy was adopted democratically through a series of discussions held over many decades by the Central Tibetan Administration and the Tibetan people to peacefully resolve the issue of Tibet. The Middle Way Approach seeks genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people within the framework of the Chinese constitution and not independence. (Middle Way Approach)
Sikyong then met with Mr Christoph Strässer, Human Rights Commissioner of the German Federal Government. Mr Strässer then took part in a panel discussion on China’s growing influence.
Sikyong addressed the members of the Tibetan Community in Germany and those who had come from across Europe to attend His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s four-day public talk and teachings in Hamburg, Germany.
Today, Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay is scheduled to address the 35th and 25th anniversaries of the Tibetan community in Germany and the Tibet Initiative Deutschland’s celebrations in Hamburg.
Sikyong will deliver a key note address on “The Middle Way Approach – The Path Forward” on the opening day of the two-day Sino-Tibetan Conference on 27 August. Kalon Dicki Chhoyang of the Department of Information & International Relations, and Special Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Europe, Mr Kelsang Gyaltsen, will speak at the conference.
The participants will exchange views and assess the past and current Sino-Tibetan affairs, human rights situation in Tibet and how to strengthen communication with intellectuals for the promotion of the Middle Way Approach.
