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Talks between India and China have led to a major breakthrough in relations, following a landmark agreement over the status of Tibet. India has now formally recognised that the area known as the Tibetan autonomous region is part of the People's Republic of China.

Tibetan exiles in India believe improved relations between India and China would help negotiations between the Dalai Lama and Beijing over Tibet, a Tibetan spokesman said on Tuesday.

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Hillary Clinton has, in her much publicized memoir Living History revealed the strong interest that she and her husband, Bill Clinton, had in Tibet and the Dalai Lama. She refers to three events involving Tibet, which had a deep impact on her.

In an implicit recognition of Sikkim being part of the Indian territory, China on Monday agreed to trade through the northeastern state and India has decided to recognise the Tibetan autonomous region as part of the territory of the People's Republic of China.

As one of our efforts to bring seriousness to the Tibetan struggle, friends of Tibet (INDIA) is continuing with the campaign to boycott `Made In China products. We began with this campaign from the beginning of this year January 1st 2003.

The Tibet question may or may not come up formally in the talks between the Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and his Chinese hosts in Beijing. But the political static from Tibet can never really be avoided in any engagement between the two neighbours.

Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of relics that will go some way to explaining ancient Tibetan existence, Chinese state press reported on Monday.

The Dalai Lama is now in Kargil as part of his three-week visit to Jammu and Kashmir. Earlier on June 12, he arrived in Buddhist-dominated Ladakh region where a large number of Tibetans living in exile gave him an warm welcome.

China, which is seeking the reopening of the old trade route through Sikkim, a state whose accession to India in 1975 it still refuses to recognise, now says it is willing to allow the governments of Sikkim and Tibet to enter into a bilateral agreement for the purpose, an informed source in the Government of India told rediff.com on Saturday.