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http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Specials/20071026/dalai_lama_071026/' C+ M4 i4 S: a9 [* Y
骚客可以看看。前总理马丁2004年就招待达赖了。
) F( A _6 e$ c' K9 ] b2 }, WOctober's visit will be the Dalai Lama's sixth trip to Canada and his third to Ottawa since he began travelling to the West in the 1970s:
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) C9 C8 q. h% d * The Dalai Lama first visited Canada in 1980 and was met by then-governor general Ed Schreyer.$ O( l; C7 g$ ~. H0 |
* In 1990, he visited Ottawa for the first time and met former secretary of state for multiculturalism Gerry Weiner on the government's behalf.4 }+ B7 T; c8 b
* The Dalai Lama's 1990 visit prompted an amendment to Sino-Canadian diplomatic policy, which was officially established in 1970. Canada continued to recognize the People's Republic of China as the official government but would take no position on territorial claims.
$ f; n' I+ X, O# n) F$ N" R * In 2004, former prime minister Paul Martin courted controversy by becoming the first Canadian leader to meet the Dalai Lama. The one-hour talk on human rights took place at the home of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ottawa. Martin's predecessor, Jean Chrtien, refused such a meeting.
$ I G7 [) l* _, H * The Dalai Lama was personally recognized when he last visited Canada in 2006 and received an honorary Canadian citizenship -- a measure protested by Chinese officials. He joins Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, Nelson Mandela and, most recently, Burmese democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi in receiving the honour. |
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