Dharamshala: US Secretary of State Pompeo, at the press briefing earlier this week extended a warm belated birthday wish to His Holiness the Dalai Lama on his 85th.
Greeting the Tibetan spiritual leade right at the beginning of his remarks, Secretary Pompeo said, “A belated happy birthday to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who celebrated his 85th birthday on Monday of this week”.
A day before, Secretary Pompeo had announced visa restrictions on PRC government and Chinese Communist Party officials deemed responsible for restricting journalists, tourists, diplomats or other US officials from entering autonomous regions in Tibet under the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018.