Polish PM ready to meet with Dalai Lama
[size=110%]WARSAW: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he would meet with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who has been invited to Poland by lawmakers in a move that could strain ties with China.
[size=110%]Asked whether he was prepared to meet with the Dalai Lama during the planned visit, Tusk told TOK FM news radio: "Of course".
"Anyone who has an opportunity to meet with and talk to the Dalai Lama is privileged," Tusk added.
The Dalai Lama was today invited by Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz, a respected anti-regime activist when Poland was under communist rule before 1989.
Borusewicz made the invitation on behalf of Poland's upper house, which is dominated by Tusk's ruling liberal Civic Platform party.
The date of the visit has not yet been fixed, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
The Dalai Lama "has promised that he will find time to come and see us this year," Civic Platform lawmaker Beata Bublewicz was quoted as saying by PAP.
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