Poland: Mr Sonam Tsering Frasi, Representative of His Holiness the Dalai Lama for Northern Europe, Poland & the Baltic States, arrived in Warsaw on 16 January where he was received by the chair and a council member of the Tibetan Community in Poland.
The Representative met with Hon Ms Monika Wielichowska, chair of the Parliamentary Group for Tibet in Sejm, the lower house of the Polish Parliament, at her parliamentary office. The Representative reiterated the chair about His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s commitments in life; about the current situation inside Tibet; about the intensifying restrictions on freedom of movement, religion and speech, particularly about the digital surveillance such as facial and retina recognition technology. He stressed the significance of this Tenth March, being the 60th anniversary of the Tibetan national uprising against the Chinese rule in 1959.
Following this productive interaction, the Representative sat down for a lunch meeting with Tomasz Szczygielski, director, Institute for Applied Research, Warsaw University of Technology Ltd.; also a University lecturer. Considering Mr Szczygielski’s work on environmental protection with the aim of achieving zero waste, the Representative shared with him CTA’s White Paper on Tibet’s ecology.
Earlier, the Representative visited Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and held discussions with Adam Koziel on the status of Tibet support in Poland.
Ms Tenzin Paldon Pesur, chair of the Tibetan Community in Poland accompanied the Representative in the official engagements.
One of the main purposes of the Representative’s visit to Warsaw is to visit late Dr Tenzin Jangchub’s Institute of Traditional Tibetan Medicine; and to meet with the administrators and the visiting Tibetan doctor: being sent courtesy MenTseeKhang – Tibetan Medical and Astro Institute, Dharamshala, India.
The Representative visited the Institute of Traditional Tibetan Medicine on Friday as well as Saturday for detailed discussions on the way forward.
He departs for London early Sunday morning.
-Filed by Office of Tibet, London