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Don’t meet Dalai Lama, Sarkozy told

Paris: China has expressed anger at a proposed meeting between the Dalai Lama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy scheduled in Poland on Saturday.

Poland has organised a meeting of Nobel Peace Prize winners in Gdansk to mark 25 years since the prize was won by Lech Walesa, former Polish President and founder of the Solidarity trade union movement.

Mr. Sarkozy, whose country holds the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union, is determined to attend the meeting despite several warnings from China.

China’s protests against the meeting in Poland began as early as in November when it scrapped its annual summit with the European Union which was to have taken place on December 1 and which Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao had been scheduled to attend.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman has warned that going ahead with the meeting could have consequences for trade relations with France.

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