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August 30, 2000 --- Tibet’s government-in-exile said on Tuesday that the Dalai Lama’s exclusion from the “Millennium World Peace Summit” at the United Nations risked undermining the meeting of world religious and spiritual leaders. Tashi Wangdi, religion and culture minister for the Central Tibetan Administration, said the summit’s organizers should not have bowed to pressure from Beijing on the Nobel peace laureate. “It is wrong not to invite his Holiness to such a major religion conference which is particularly concerned with world peace, especially so when his Holiness is recognized as one of the most important advocates of world peace and inter-religion understanding,” Wangdi said. The summit, organized by a coalition of non-government religious groups with assistance from the United Nations, opened in the General Assembly hall on Monday. The aim of the meeting, which ends on Thursday, is to bring spiritual and religious leaders into the framework of the United Nations in a bid to help resolve conflicts and preserve peace. But the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists and winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, was absent from the gathering of more than 15 major faith traditions. The god-king’s office said his exclusion from the summit was apparently due to pressure from the Chinese communist government. Wangdi told Reuters from the Indian Himalayan foothills town of Dharamshala --- seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile --- that the Dalai Lama’s exclusion would harm the conference itself. “It undermines the importance and credibility of the conference and also the image of the United Nations,” he said. “It’s wrong to bow down to pressure of one country.” Dharamshala is home to thousands of Tibetans who fled along with the Dalai Lama for India in 1959. The United Nations is the venue for some of the events. The others are at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. The Dalai Lama declined a belated invitation to the closing ceremony at the Waldorf, the summit’s headquarters, because he was excluded from the United Nations compound, organizers said. World people prayed on Sunday (August 20, 2000) for 118 sailors on board the stricken Kursk submarine --- hours after Russia authorities said they had all but give up hope, nevertheless; the misfortune in not Russia business but whole world’s affair, people said “this is a tragedy, and not just for Murmansk.” In our views; those who look as internal affairs would be a world issues, under the tendency toward global village, human’s power superior to nations’ force. Russian officials long have suspected that the Soviet sub k-129 was truck by an American submarine, the military still the West as the cold war enemy, Russian people accused President Vladimir Putin on delaying to rescue 118 Russian sailors, “I voted for him, I believed in him. Now I’ve got my doubts about him as a leader, as a person, about his character, since the calamity,” said Svetlana Golovko, a teacher. However; the sub issue is a very good education on democratic system at new reform of Russia, there are no hegemony again that relating with government to people need mutual trust and honesty, we hope that cold or hot war would come sooner, because global village is not a dream of earth’s creature. |
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