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Khama blasts China over Dalai Lama – Report
10:51 CAT | 19 Aug 2017
File photo / Ian Khama, Botswana's president
Botswana President Ian Khama has lashed out at China accusing it of intimidating his administration which was expected to host Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama who has since cancelled his trip, Botswana Guardian newspaper reported here Thursday.
Khama told the paper that “they told me things like the Ambassador may be recalled, it would damage relations between Botswana and China that they would as China engage other African states to isolate Botswana.”
Khama said the Dalai Lama is welcome to visit Botswana at any time.
He wishes the Dalai Lama a “speedy recovery” from the exhaustion he suffers, after which the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is “welcome to come and visit Botswana.”
He was expected to be the keynote speaker at a conference in the capital Gaborone but the trip was cancelled at the 11th hour as the 82-year-old announced that he was exhausted.
“So we assume he will make a speedy recovery and once he has recovered, he is of course welcome to come and visit Botswana,” Khama said.
China, which views Dalai Lama as a separatist, had called on Botswana not to allow Dalai Lama to visit but the Southern African country would not budge.
Source: APA
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