SAN FRANCISCO: Representative Ngodup Tsering of the Office of Tibet based in Washington DC met leaders of Silicon Valley in San Francisco and Alex Fieldong, Co founder of Ripcord on 16 April. He apprised them of the situation inside Tibet and requested their support to safeguard Tibetan language, culture and traditions.
The Chinese and Tibetan liaison officers Kunga Tashi and Tenzin Tsepak accompanied by Tenzin Rangdol, President of Tibetan Association of Northern California (TANC) met state senator Scott Weiner, Speaker of state legislature Anthony Rendon, and Anka Lee and Jose Alvarado, Director and Deputy Director of International Relations respectively. They requested the lawmakers to raise the Tibet issue in the California state congress and support the Tibet movement. They further requested them to adopt a legislation approving Tibetan as an official minority language in the state, a precedent set by the US state of Wisconsin. They explained that California is a state with the third largest community of Tibetans within the United States.
On 17 April, Representative Ngodup Tsering met Jesse Arreguin, Mayor of Berkeley city. During the meeting, the Representative thanked the mayor for the city’s continued support to the Tibetan community. He also requested the Mayor’s office to celebrate His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s birthday, Tibetan Losar, and officially support the preservation and promotion of Tibetan language as an ethnic minority language. He further invited the Mayor to visit the Central Tibetan Administration based in Dharamshala.
The Representative is accompanied by Tenzin Rangdol, President of TANC, with Kunga Tashi and Tenzin Tsepak, the Chinese and Tibetan liaison officers of OOT Washington DC during the meeting with the Mayor.
– Report filed in Tibetan by OOT Washington DC –