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Danish PM aims to meet Dalai Lama in May

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The Dalai Lama during a press conference on 10 March 2009. Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hopes to meet the Dalai Lama in May when he visits Denmark, despite Chinese warnings.File photo/Tibet Sun/Lobsang Wangyal/India

Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen hopes to meet Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in May when he visits Denmark, despite Chinese warnings, a parliamentary source said Thursday.

“I met with the Dalai Lama during his last visit to Denmark in 2003 and I plan to do so again if possible,” Rasmussen wrote in response to a question from opposition Socialist People’s Party member Pernille Frahm, who passed on his answer to AFP.

Frahm said she had written to the prime minister to ask if he “planned to defy warnings from the Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and meet with the Dalai Lama in May.”

The 73-year-old exiled spiritual leader has visited Denmark several times, each time provoking loud protests from China, which has ruled Tibet since 1951.

His next visit to the Scandinavian country is scheduled for 29-31 May.

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