China asks Dalai Lama to respond 'positively' during talks

Ahead of a new round of talks with the Dalai Lama on the vexed Tibet issue, China today asked the exiled Tibetan leader to make "positive" responses and exert "tangible sincerity and action" at the parleys to be held soon.
"China's central government is to arrange another round of talks with the private representatives of the Dalai Lama in the near future" at the request of the Dalai Lama side," the official Xinhua news agency reported without specifying a date for the in-camera sessions.
The terse statement came after the 73-year-old Dalai Lama said this week he would only hold talks with China on the future of Tibet if Beijing "honestly" wished to engage in dialogue.
The third meeting with the Dalai Lama's representatives in 2008 would be held "despite the Lhasa riot in March and serious disruptions and sabotage to the Beijing Olympic Games by a handful of Tibet independence" secessionists, Xinhua quoted an unnamed Chinese official as saying.