New Delhi, Jan 23 (AFP) - The Dalai Lama may visit Taiwan after all, the Tibetan spiritual leader's bureau announced in an apparent u-turn on Wednesday.

"In the future the Dalai Lama may visit Taiwan," spokesman Jampel Chasang told AFP. "No dates have been fixed at the moment."

Chasang said Tuesday the Dalai Lama, who heads a government -in-exile in Dharamsala, northrn India would not go to Taiwan unless it stopped regarding Tibet as a part of China.

He added Wednesday that the Taiwan government had promised "there will not be any interference ... in the event of his holiness' visit."

A Taiwan Buddhist group has invited the Dalai Lama for 10 days in March. The Tibetan leader has never been to Taiwan, where Chiense nationalists fled after their defeat by the communist in a civil war in 1949.

The Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 after a failed anti-Chinese uprising in his homeland. His govenrment-inexile is not recognised byt any country.

India is also home to more than 100,000 Tibetan exiles.