Dharamsala, June 5 (IANS): The Tibetan administration-in-exile Thursday launched a campaign to reach out to the international community to counter the Chinese "misinformation campaign on its middle-way approach to resolve the Tibetan issue.
Tibetan prime minister-in-exile Lobsang Sangay launched the campaign. The "middle-way approach" favours "genuine autonomy" for Tibetans within the framework of the Chinese constitution and does not speak of independence.
Sangay said the campaign would not only help understand exactly what the Tibetan people were calling for genuine autonomy, but also make it clear how long the Tibetan administration had stuck firm to this policy about its impact to date and its intentions for the future.
"The middle-way approach information materials - many of them available in seven languages, including Chinese - will make it very easy for people around the world to understand exactly what the Tibetan administration is proposing in terms of genuine autonomy within China," the political successor of the Dalai Lama said in a statement.
He said through the campaign, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) would try engaging the young people, diplomats and media across the globe to counter the Chinese government's misinformation campaign about the policy.
The middle-way approach is already supported by international leaders including US President Barack Obama and many Chinese intellectuals, such as imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Liu Xiaobo.
Sangay said Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the then Tibetan administration formulated the middle-way approach policy in 1974, as a realistic option to resolve the issue of Tibet.
China and the Dalai Lama's envoys have held nine rounds of talks since 2002 to resolve the Tibetan issue.
In the last round of talks - the ninth - held in Beijing in January 2010, the government-in-exile submitted an explanatory note to the Chinese leadership to clarify its stand on genuine autonomy for the Tibetan people.
On the conclusion of that round, the statement that the Chinese side issued said the two sides had "sharply divided views, as usual".
The Tibetan administration in exile is based in this north Indian hill town.