From: World Tibet Network Weekly Digest, April 21-27 '95

BONN, April 26 (Reuter) - China's embassy in Germany said on Wednesday it opposed a planned meeting between Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and the Dalai Lama.

Kinkel will hold talks with the Dalai Lama next month when Tibet's

exiled spiritual leader visits Germany. It will be the first meeting between a German foreign minister and the man who symbolises Tibetans' aspirations for release from Chinese rule.

"We are against this," said a spokesman at the Chinese embassy in

Berlin. "The Dalai Lama leads a separatist movement for the independence of Tibet, and we oppose him being received by any government with which we have diplomatic ties."