ULAANBAATAR (GoGo Mongolia/ANN) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China has issued three statements this year regarding the 14th Dalai Lama's visit to Mongolia.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama paid his 9th visit, with the last being in 2011, to Mongolia on November 18-22.
A day after his arrival, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama greeted devout Mongolians at the Gandantegchinlen Monastery, the centre for Buddhism in Mongolia, on November 19. On the next day, His Holiness delivered a unique teaching to his Mongolian followers reaching over 10 thousand people, jammed in the 5,000-seating capacity sports complex of Buyant Ukhaa.
The purpose of his teaching in Ulaanbaatar was to enhance Mongolia’s benefaction, and therefore, to diminish the obstacles and traverses in Mongolia’s path to prosperity.
Moreover, The Dalai Lama took part in a discussion called 'Science and Teachings of the Buddha.'
The 14th Dalai Lama had first visited Mongolia in 1979. When he arrived back in 2002, the Chinese side had protested the visit and had closed the border with Mongolia for two days.
In 2016, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China released three statements with regard to the 14th Dalai Lama's Visit to Mongolia.
Deputy Prime Minister of Mongolia U. Khurelsukh was scheduled to pay a working visit to China to attend the inter-governmental meeting to be held on November 28. However, the Chinese side has indefinitely postponed the meeting on mining and energy.
Spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry Geng Shuang's delivered remarks explaining the reason for cancelling the meeting.
"We have expressed our solemn position on Dalai's visit to Mongolia. The erroneous action taken by the Mongolian side on Dalai's visit has hurt the political foundation of China-Mongolia relations and has exerted a negative impact on the development of bilateral relations. The Chinese side requires the Mongolian side to genuinely respect China's core interests and major concerns, take effective steps to remove the negative impact caused by its erroneous action and bring the China-Mongolia relations back to the track of sound and steady growth," he said.
Earlier, on November 20, Shuang had stated that in sheer disregard of China's repeated dissuasion, Mongolia had insisted on inviting the 14th Dalai Lama for a visit. The Chinese side is dissatisfied with and opposed to this step.
He added that the 14th Dalai Lama is a political exile who has long been engaged in anti-China separatist activities under the cloak of religion, with the aim of breaking Tibet away from China. The Chinese side firmly opposes any anti-China separatist activities conducted by Dalai in any capacity or name in any country and opposes all forms of contact by officials of any country with him.
China has urged Mongolia to see through the nature of the Dalai clique, respect China's core interests and major concerns and take concrete actions to remove the negative effects, so as to prevent the disruption of the sound development of China-Mongolia relations.
However, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ts.Munkh-Orgil has given a statement on the Dalai Lama`s visit. “The Government of Mongolia has nothing to do with the visit”, he stated.
Moreover, he emphasised that the 9th visit of the Dalai Lama to Mongolia is taking place at the invitation of the Center of Mongolian Buddhists – The Gandantegchinlen Monastery, and is a solely religious courtesy.
He added that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Ts.Munkh-Orgil`s visit to China and Russian-Mongolian-China trilateral ministers meeting have cancelled.
In regards, we will discuss with China on the cancellation of these meetings, said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia.

Published Date:2016-11-24