The Tibetan government-in-exile today said their cause will not go away with the Dalai Lama and that they are determined to seek genuine autonomy within the framework of China's constitution.
"The Dalai Lama took a historical decision and devolved his political responsibilities to the elected leadership of the Central Tibetan Administration to give clear message to Beijing that leadership of the Tibet freedom movement has been entrusted to a younger generation ," Tsering Wangchuk, Press Officer of Tibetan government-in-exile said here.
Quoting his Foreign Minister Dicki Chhoyang's statement in Rome today, he said, "Whereas China is calculating that the Tibetan cause will fade when the current Dalai Lama passes away. This will not happen.
"We remain determined to finding a peaceful resolution to the situation in Tibet through the Middle Way Approach which seeks genuine autonomy within the framework of China's constitution," he added.
Wangchuk said Chhoyang had made the stand clear at Italian Senate's Extraordinary Commission for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights.
"I am proud to say that the Tibetan spirit is strong. Through the visionary leadership of the Dalai Lama for all these years, our issue remains alive, our hopes remain buoyant," the Tibetan foreign minister-in-exile had said.
She had thanked Italian Chamber of Deputies for unanimously adopting a resolution on February 8, 2009 calling on the People's Republic of China to engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama's envoys to resolve the Tibet issue.
She requested the Italian Senate to recommend to the Italian government to ask the Chinese government to engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama's envoys.
