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US Concerned With Tibetan Exiles in Nepal
By KTM Metro Reporter
June 9, 2011: in a press statement released on June 6, 2011, the US Embassy in Nepal has said that US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kelly Clements has expressed the concern of the US government for the stateless people in Nepal without naming Tibetan exiles at the meeting with the Nepalese authorities during his two-day visit to Nepal according to the news posted on the phayul.com.
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration Kelly Clements has visited Nepal on June 5 and 6 to discuss humanitarian protection and assistance issues for refugees and other vulnerable populations in the region. During his visit, he has met with the officials of the Nepalese Foreign Ministry and has urged them to allow the Tibetan exiles in Nepal to register the birth of their children in Nepal in the census conducted in this month.
Nepal has held the first round census in the first week of June and is starting off the second round of the census on June 17. As a rule, Tibetan exiles and their children should be included in the census. The government has stopped issuing identity cards to Tibetan refugees since 1989.
Nepal is home to the second largest population of Tibetans exiles after India. Thousands of Tibetans cross the 1,414 km common border that Tibet and Nepal share for visiting His Holiness Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, North India, or to escape the tyranny of the Chinese Rulers in Tibet.
