Published by: World Tibet Network News, Sunday, Jun 09, 1996

BEIJING, June 6, 1996 (Reuter) - China said Thursday Germany should stamp out "anti-China activities," hinting that Bonn should ban a conference that the Dalai Lama was expected to attend.

"It is true that inside Germany there are some certain people who always tend to interfere in the internal affairs of China," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Shen Guofang told a regular news conference.

"It is our wish that the German government will...prevent these people unfriendly to China from organizing...anti-China activities," he said.

The Dalai Lama, exiled god-king of China's Himalayan region of Tibet and seen by Beijing as the head of a separatist movement, was slated to attend a June 15-17 conference on Tibet in Bonn organised by a non-governmental organization close to German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel.

German business daily Handelsblatt said Beijing was annoyed that the conference was going ahead and by a resolution tabled in parliament challenging Tibet's status in international law.

The newspaper reported that Kinkel, who is scheduled to meet Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen in Beijing July 11, had said the resolution and the conference had created friction between Bonn and Beijing.

In what was seen as an attempt to appease Beijing, Bonn withdrew a $190,000 grant to the conference after organisers advertised some participants as members of a Tibetan government-in-exile.

Bonn does not recognize the term because it considers Tibet to be a part of China, which has ruled the region since the People's Liberation Army entered in 1950.