(Ottawa, Wednesday, 10 March 2010) - The Canada Tibet Committee (CTC) calls on Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as host of the G8 summit, to bring his counterparts together to deliver an unambiguous two word message to President Hu Jintao that "it's time" to take advantage of the historic opportunity presented by His Holiness the Dalai Lama to reach a peaceful solution to the Tibet issue.

Dharamshala: At the opening of this week's Strasbourg plenary session, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek appealed to the Chinese leadership to change its approach and to resume the dialogue with the representatives of the Dalai Lama.

Washington, DC: US Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, released the following statement yesterday on the 51st Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising.

New Delhi: 9 March 2010-Police say they have detained nearly two dozen Tibetan exiles from outside the Chinese Embassy in the Indian capital, where they protested on the eve of the anniversary of the failed uprising that sent the Dalai Lama into exile in India.

Dharamshala: The ninth Tibetan parliamentary budget session, to set government expenditure for 2010-2011, began yesterday in Dharamshala, India. Today His Holiness the Dalai Lama conveyed a message, as follows, to the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile, on democracy, internal conflict and the China-Tibet dialogue:

The governor of the so called "Tibet Autonomous Region", Pema Trinley (Ch: Padma Choling) (newly appointed by the Communist regime of China), claimed on Sunday that Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama "did not have a right to choose his successor," Chinese state controlled news agency Xinhua has reported.