Envoys of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and Chinese officials held talks on the current crisis in Tibet on Sunday and agreed to further talks, officials and news reports said, according to DPA. The talks in Shenzhen, which are the first between the two sides since anti-China protests erupted in Tibet in March, were planned for at least the next two days, Tenzin Taklha, spokesman for the Dalai Lama, said. The two Chinese officials said in talks that the unrest in Lhasa on March 14 had presented "new obstacles" to the resumption of dialogue, according to China's official Xinhua news agency. The envoys had agree on further talks, the report said. No place and time for the planned "contacts and consultation" was given. The Chinese government hoped that the Dalai Lama would take "credible moves" towards creating the terms for the next round of talks, according to Xinhua. This would include no more attempting to split China, instigating violence or "sabotaging" the Beijing Olympic Games. "We are not giving out any information about the talks until Special Envoy Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Envoy Kelsang Gyaltsen return and report the details of the talks to His Holiness Dalai Lama," Taklha said. The envoys were expected to return to India by Wednesday, he said, speaking from the north Indian hill town of Dharamsala where the Dalai Lama and his Tibetan government-in-exile are based.
