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Gregory Meeks joins top US delegation to India, will meet Dalai Lama
The bipartisan congressional delegation is led by Chairman Michael McCaul.
Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. / Reuters/Danish Siddiqui/File Photo
House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory W Meeks has joined Chairman Michael McCaul's bipartisan congressional delegation to India. Other members in the top US delegation include Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, House Rules Committee Ranking Member Jim McGovern, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Indo-Pacific Ranking Member Ami Bera and Representatives Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Nicole Malliotakis.
During their visit, the US delegation will also meet with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, Indian government officials, and representatives of various American businesses in the country. Dalai Lama, 88, lives in exile in Dharamsala – the town in the northern Indian Himalayas
“I look forward to joining Chairman McCaul and Speaker Emerita Pelosi to demonstrate the strong bipartisan support for the US-India relationship,” stated Gregory Meeks. “Over the past 25 years, our relationship with India has transformed to become one of the United States most consequential. I’m also honored to have a chance to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and to hear his views on how the American People can help advance the Tibetan people’s struggle for autonomy.”
Chairman McCaul said that India is “the world’s largest democracy and an important strategic partner of the United States”.
“I look forward to meeting with government officials and the American business community to learn how we can continue to strengthen our relationship with India. I am also honored to have the opportunity to meet with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. Tibetans are a democracy-loving people who wish to practice their religion freely. This visit should highlight the bipartisan support in the US Congress for Tibet to have a say in their own future,” McCaul added.
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