US, Europe to Hail China Talks with Dalai Lama

From AFP:

The United States and the European Union will call on China Tuesday to have “results-orientated” talks on Tibet with the Dalai Lama‘s representatives, according to a draft joint declaration obtained Monday.

“We welcome China’s recent decision to hold talks with the Dalai Lama’s representatives. We encourage both parties to move forward with a substantive, constructive and results-orientated dialogue at an early stage,” it said.

The declaration, a copy of which was obtained by AFP, was to be released after US President George W. Bush and European Union leaders hold an annual summit near Slovenia’s capital Ljubljana.