Dalai clique using climate talks to gain wide attention
Attempts made by the Dalai Lama clique to use the upcoming Paris climate talks to call attention to themselves are "sinister intentions," said an opinion article Monday on a State-owned news site.
"Ever since their defection in 1959, the Dalai Lama clique has often used world opinion to promote and gain attention for themselves in an attempt to advocate 'Tibet independence' … But it is recognized by the world that Tibet is an inalienable territory of China. No matter how many sinister intentions they hold, the Dalai Lama clique will see nothing but failure," said the article on Lhasa-based news site tibet.cn.
The comments come following a statement issued by the Dalai Lama clique in October that they want an effective climate change agreement and also want to have a say in the upcoming Paris climate talks, Reuters reported.
They claim that two-thirds of the glaciers in their mountain homeland may disappear by 2050 due to climate change.
Close to 200 countries will meet in Paris in December to try to hammer out a deal to slow man-made climate change by attempting to keep temperatures below a ceiling of 2 C above pre-industrial levels.
The article said that the Dalai Lama clique is trying to create a delusion that the Tibet Autonomous Region is not part of China, as members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change must be sovereign nations. "China will be sending a delegation to the conference. Tibet, as part of China, is represented by the delegation," it added.
