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Exile
Tibetan leaders the Dalai Lama, is welcomed by Belgium's Senate
President Armand De Decker (L), Finance Minister Didier Reynders (2nd
L), Lower house President Herman Van Rompuy (2nd R) and Parliamentarian
Corinne De Permentier (R) at the Parliament in Brussels December 4,
2008. Dalai Lama Friday ended his two-day visit to Belgium and arrived
in Poland. (Photo: Reuters) |
Gdansk, Poland, 5 December 2008 (Phuyul.com) - The exiled Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived in Poland Friday for an eight-day tour.
"I'm
very happy to be in the city where the historic Solidarity movement was
born and where my friend Lech Walesa began his activities", the Dalai
Lama was quoted as saying by AFP as he arrived at the airport in the
Baltic port of Gdansk. The Tibetan leader was welcomed by the city's mayor, Pawel Adamowicz.
The
revered Tibetan leader and winner of 1989 Nobel Peace Prize and other
Nobel Peace laureates were invited to Gdansk to celebrate the 25 years
since Poland's Lech Walesa won the award for leading Poland's
Solidarity movement in a peaceful struggle against the then communist
regime.
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Tibetan
leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama, former Polish President and Nobel
Peace Prize winner Lech Walesa (L) and fellow laureate Adolfo Perez
Esquivel (R) greet each other in Gdansk, Poland, Friday, Dec. 5, 2008.
Walesa is hosting a handful of Nobel Peace Prize laureates to mark the
25th anniversary of his Nobel Peace Prize win. (Photo: AP) |
During the visit, the Tibetan leader will meet visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Dalai Lama's high-profile Europe tour and Sarkozy's scheduled meeting with him has upset China.
In
protest, China decided to walk away from a long-planned annual summit
with EU which had been scheduled for December 1 in France and warned
France of serious consequences in trade and bilateral relations.
But
Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation
European Union, has insisted he will meet the Dalai Lama in Poland on
Saturday. | 
