Refusing to set a date for the next round of parleys with the Dalai Lama's envoys, China on Tuesday said that Sunday's meeting was only a "beginning" and insisted that the Tibetan leader should take "concrete actions" to create conditions for further talks.
In the first comments on the meeting between the two sides that lasted only a few hours, the Chinese foreign ministry said, "the central government's policy is consistent and clear cut. The door for dialogue is always open".
"I want to stress that the current contact is only a beginning," foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at a regular bi-weekly media briefing.
At the meeting, the first since the unrest erupted in Tibet in March, Chinese officials talked about the riots in Lhasa and central government's policy towards the Dalai Lama and "we agreed to continue with the contact when appropriate", he said.
During the talks, officials had "clearly and comprehensively" expanded on China's position and "we believe that the Dalai's representatives have heard it very clearly", Qin said during the briefing.
Describing the current contact as "sincere", Qin said, "so long as the Dalai side exerts sincerity especially in actions, then the contact will continue".
He hoped that the Tibetan leader "will mean his words and really stop separatist activities, stop provoking violent activities and stop disrupting the Beijing Olympics so
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