May 8, 2013
Washington, DC: Sikyong Dr. Lobsang Sangay arrived in Washington, DC on May 6, 2013 for his third official visit to the American capital since assuming the Tibetan political leadership.
The Sikyong will be in Washington from May 6 to 10 and is accompanied by Special Advisor Kaydor Aukatsang and Ngawang Yonten from the Office of Tibet in New York. The Sikyong had a full first two days including visiting and paying his respects to His Holiness the Dalai Lama who was in the neighboring state of Maryland on May 6 and 7. Highlights of the first two days include:
· A lunch meeting with 35 Congressional staffers in the U.S. House of Representatives. This meeting was organized by the American Enterprise Institute. The staffers asked questions and got to hear the Sikyong making a case for why Tibet is important and his request for support from the Congress.
· The Hill, a widely read publication in DC, published an Op-Ed by the Sikyong on May 6. http://thehill.com/blogs/
· The Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization, that has promotion of human rights of those oppressed by their governments as one of its objectives, hosted a private dinner for the Sikyong on May 6. The event brought together a select and high-level group of human rights and foreign policy experts in DC.
· Sikyong met with senior staffers of Senators Leahy and Feinstein.
