Kalon Tripa Meets with Senators Lieberman, McCain, Udall and Barrasso
[Wednesday, 2 November,2011]

{In Photo From left: Senator Barasso, Senator Liberman, Kalon Tripa Dr Lobsang Sangay, Senator McCain and Senator Tom Udall}

Washington, DC.: "Mr. Kalon Tripa, the Senator is now ready to receive you" called out the staff of Senator Joseph Lieberman as the Kalon Tripa, Dr. Lobsang Sangay and his team along with Senator John McCain waited at the reception area of Senator Lieberman's office. Soon Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico (Democrat) and John Barrasso, Republican from Wyoming joined the group as well. Once everyone was seated, his staff served freshly brewed Tibetan butter tea. The bookshelves in the office was festooned with prayers flags. It was clear the Senator had gone out of his way to welcome the Kalon Tripa. This meeting, one of the more important ones during the Kalon Tripa's current visit to Washington, DC, was hosted jointly by Senators Lieberman and McCain and their staff.
Senator McCain wasted no time in getting the ball rolling by asking the Kalon Tripa "What can we do to help you?" The four Senators and Kalon Tripa spent nearly forty minutes in an intimate and productive discussion where they discussed the current situation in Ngaba, political transition in Dharamsala and other related issues. Senators Lieberman and McCain extended their strong support to His Holiness and the Kalon Tripa. Senator McCain later tweeted on the meeting and said "Met today with Lobsang Sangay, Kalon Tripa of the Central Tibetan Adminsitration - an outstanding leader of a country that deserves its freedom"


The other two important meetings on day two of the trip were a meeting with the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and a meeting with the staff of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Commission, set up by the US Congress in 2000, is responsible for looking at trends in China especially as they relate to economic and security matters. Five Commissioners attended the meeting with the Kalon Tripa. Dr. Sangay requested the Commission to consider including Tibet under their mandate and the Commission expressed interest in reaching out to the CTA for a water and resource management hearing to be convened in January 2012.

The Kalon Tripa started the day with an interview with Radio Free Asia in the morning. The evening ended with a dinner organized by the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) where ICT invited some of their members and donors and they were invited to support educational and developmental projects operated by the Central Tibetan Administration in India.


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