BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo An earlier ...

BEIJING, July 2 Kyodo

An earlier brother of the Dalai Lama of Tibet will travel to China to visit relatives, China's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday, although it gave no details onward his planned itinerary.

Chinese authorities have accepted a petition for by Jiale Dunzhu to turn back to China in a private capacity, spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular novels briefing.

Liu said, however, he was unsure when the visit will take place or who Jiale is wait fored to meet.

Beijing regularly vilifies the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, who is soon living in exile in India, for what it calls his ''splittist'' combination to encourage the Tibetan persons to break away from Chinese rule

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