Aurangabad Resolution Seeks ‘Legislative Forum for Tibet in Maharashtra Assembly’[Friday, 21 January 2011, 2:56 p.m.]

Mrs Ngawang Lhamo, member of the standing committee of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile (3rd R) with members of Maharashtra state legislative assembly at the first-ever meeting of Indo-Tibetan Friendship Society in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India, on 2 January 2011/TPiE Photo

DHARAMSHALA:
The first ever meeting of the newly established Indo-Tibetan Friendship
Society (ITFS) in Aurangabad passed a resolution seeking a ‘Legislative
Forum for Tibet in the Maharashtra State Legislative Assembly’.Over
400 people, including the mayor of Aurangabad city, three members of
state assembly and a standing committee member of the Tibetan
Parliament in Exile, attended the meeting in Aurangabad on 2 January.The meeting also passed a resolution to “organise various activities to highlight the issue of Tibet”.The meeting discussed various issues concerning “Tibet in general and the environmental situation in particular”.Mrs
Ngawang Lhamo, member of Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, informed the
meeting on the political situation in Tibet, the deteriorating
situation of Tibet’s environment and its impact on the neighbouring
countries including India.Mrs Lhamo spoke on the current status
of the dialogue process between the envoys of His Holiness the Dalai
Lama and the PRC leadership. She appealed for the support of the people
and both the state and central government of India for the realisation
of a constructive dialogue process.