الدالاي لاما يجهل أن رئيسة الوزراء الأسترالية "جوليا جيلارد" أنثى

Australian prime minister Julia Gillard snubs Dalai Lama
Le Premier ministre australien refuse de rencontrer le dalaï lama

مشاهير123 - لم يهتم الزعيم الروحي للتيبت الدالاي لاما برفض رئيسة الوزراء الأسترالية جوليا جيلارد لقاءه، وهو لم يكن يأبه لها لدرجة انه كان يجهل أن الذي يترأس الحكومة الاسترالية امرأة.
وأفادت وكالة الأنباء الأسترالية "آيه آيه بي" امس، بان "الدالاي لاما سئل ان كان أمله خاب عندما علم ان جيلارد رفضت لقاءه فأجاب بكل وضوح لا".
وأضاف الزعيم البوذي ان "هدف زيارته هو الترويج للقيم والتناغم الديني. إذا كان رئيس الوزراء مهما من الناحية الروحية فان لقائي سيكون مفيداً، وإلا فلا شيء لدي لأسأله ولا فائدة من طلب المشورة منه".

The Dalai Lama talks with journalists at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Tuesday, June 14, 2011

English: Machahir123 - Prime Minister Julia Gillard refused to meet the Dalai Lama during his visit to Parliament House on Tuesday but insisted that the snub had nothing to do with Chinese pressure on world leaders to shun the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.

"I make my own decisions and the government makes its own decisions about meetings that we hold," Gillard told reporters.

The Dalai Lama said he wasn't disappointed. He seemed to know little about Gillard -- including her gender.

"If your prime minister has some kind of spiritual interest, then of course, my meeting would be useful, otherwise I have nothing to ask him," the Dalai Lama said during a news conference. He twice referred to Gillard as a man before he was corrected.

Meetings with the Dalai Lama are a delicate issue for heads of state because China regards him as a dangerous separatist who wants Tibet to split from the country -- a charge he denies. In Australia, which has extensive trade ties with China, a low-key 2008 meeting between the Dalai Lama and the acting prime minister brought a rebuke from Beijing.