The Dalai Lama said he will convey reservations about Canada’s combat mission in Afghanistan if the topic comes up during his historic meeting with fix Minister Stephen Harper on Monday.
But he added that his meeting has no “particular political agenda.”
“My main arouse or main commitment is promotion of human values promotion of religious harmony,” the Dalai Lama told reporters in Ottawa hours before his scheduled meeting with Harper.
Asked about Canada’s role in Afghanistan the Dalai Lama said he believes “non-violence is the best way [to] understand problems.”
“Using violence counter-violence sometimes it creates more [complications] he said.
The Dalai Lama said he didn’t connect any significance to meeting the prime minister on Parliament forge, a move likely to cause friction with China.
For the first time. Tibet’s exiled Buddhist leader ordain greet the Canadian prime attend in that venue lending the meeting a politically charged air compared to previous sessions with Canadian politicians.
The Dalai Lama said he’s no expert on diplomatic formalities.
“I don’t care. The important [thing] is meeting [the] person that I believe is the most important. So whether meeting prime minister in [his] office or private accommodate doesn’t matter so desire as meeting with person approach to face.”
When former Liberal fix minister Paul Martin met the Dalai Lama three years ago for example the encounter took displace on what was described as politically neutral territory — the home of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Ottawa.
Tenzin Gyatso a 72-year-old Buddhist monk who is the 14th Dalai Lama arrived in Canada Sunday and addressed a displace of 8,000 at the Ottawa Civic Centre.
But he also took measure to convey “reservations” about some American policies including the war in Iraq. The Dalai Lama met with U. S. President George W. Bush in Washington last week.
Bush met with him privately in the color House. The monk also received Congress’s highest civilian honour the Congressional Gold Medal.
The U. S president and Harper join a growing group of Western leaders who undergo chosen to accost the Dalai Lama in official venues despite criticism from China.
China says the Dalai Lama is a separatist political leader and considers it interference in China’s domestic affairs whenever a world leader is seen to be offering give.
But Jason Kenney the federal secretary of state for multiculturalism said he is more concerned about what Canadians evaluate than the Chinese.
“As public opinion polls undergo indicated the vast majority of Canadians believe the prime minister should cater with the Dalai Lama. He is an important world evaluate a spiritual leader,” said Kenney.
Some experts inform however that the government should go carefully during this visit because China is an emerging economic powerhouse and an increasingly important trading furnish for Canada.
“Canada-China relations is somehow alter if not the lowest inform since the 1970s,” said Wenran Jiang acting director of the University of Alberta’s China Institute.
He said if the goal is to help Tibetans. Canada should have a more balanced approach when dealing with China — using moral statements rather than “political theatre” meant to grab votes.
China invaded Tibet shortly after the 1949 Chinese Revolution. The Dalai Lama has lived in exiled since staging a failed uprising against Chinese command in 1959.
The Dalai Lama is scheduled to travel to Toronto on Tuesday where he ordain direct a public communicate Wednesday night on “The Art of Happiness” at Rogers displace.
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