India's foreign secretary Nirupama Rao met exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, in this northern Indian hill station for talks on Saturday, officials said. Rao "called on His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the two discussed issues of common interest," Tenzin Taklha, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama, told AFP.
He would not elaborate on the Dalai Lama's meeting with Rao in Dharamshala, home to the Tibetan government-in-exile since the spiritual leader fled to India more than half a century ago after China crushed an uprising in Tibet. Rao is the most senior civil servant in the Indian foreign ministry.
Indian government officials declined to comment on Rao's meeting with the Dalai Lama, who celebrated his 75th birthday earlier in the week, Her visit to Dharamshala came days after she accompanied India's National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon on a trip to China, where he met senior Chinese leaders.
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