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The IV National Youth Assembly of the Intercontinental Youth Camp-2004 was held at Shillong from 10-11 November 2003. The Youth Assemblies were previously held at Nagpur, Mumbai and Chandigarh with participation from various youth groups to plan for the IYC-2004

Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama would like to return to his homeland within the next three years, the president of the Russian republic of Kalmykia told reporters Tuesday.

Parliamentarians from across Europe today called on China to drop all preconditions to negotiations with the Dalai Lama and reiterated their call for the immediate appointment of a EU Special Representative for Tibet to facilitate meaningful dialogue between Beijing and

The under thirteen - national football team arrived here yesterday. The eighteen member squad left for Marseille, southern France, yesterday evening. The team will play against schools in Monaco, Marseille and Dijon.

European Parliament: trying to raise the profile of the thorny issue (Photo: EUobserver.com)

The European Parliament once again tried to put Tibet on the EU's political agenda after a meeting of the Forum on Tibet on Wednesday.

China insisted on Thursday the Dalai Lama publicly accept that Taiwan is a part of China and drop his call for Tibetan independence if he ever wants to set foot in Tibet again.

Mr. Pema Jungney, Chairman of the ATPD

Honourable EPP-ED Chairman Mr. Hans-Gert Poeterring; Honourable President of the European Parliament Tibet Intergroup, Mr. Thomas mann; Honourable Chairman of the EP committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy, Mr. Elmar Brok

"Destruction of other part of the world is destruction of yourself, eventually," the Dalai Lama said.