Envoy Kelsang
Gyaltsen briefs the Three Kalon Tripa Candidates on the Status of
Dialogue with Beijing[Wednesday,
2 February 2011, 4:44 p.m.]

Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen (3rd L briefs the three official candidates for the post of Kalon Tripa, Kalon Trisur Tethong Tenzin Namgyal (3rd R), Kasur Tashi Wangdi (2nd R) and Dr Lobsang Sangay (1st R) at the Kashag Secretariat in Dharamsala on 2 February 2011

DHARAMSHALA: Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen today briefed the three
official candidates for the post of Kalon Tripa on the ongoing dialogue
process with the Chinese leadership. This briefing was initiated by the
Envoys in consultation with Kalon Tripa and with approval of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama. In a three-hour briefing, the Envoy updated the
three candidates, Kalon Trisur Tethong Tenzin Namgyal, Kasur Tashi
Wangdi and Dr Lobsang Sangay on the status of the dialogue process. He
began his briefing by recounting the genesis of the dialogue process
between Dharamsala and Beijing in 1979 when China’s paramount leader,
Deng Xiaoping, stated that except for the issue of Tibetan independence,
everything else could be discussed and resolved.Envoy Kelsang
Gyaltsen summarised the content of the discussions between the Tibetan
team and the representatives of the Chinese government which comprises
623 pages of meeting minutes and 200 pages of written notes,
clarifications and statements given by the Tibetan delegation to the
Chinese side. Since 2002 Special Envoy Kasur Lodi Gyari led the Tibetan
team in nine rounds of talks with the representatives of the Chinese
government. The last meeting with the Chinese side was in January 2010.