Dharamsala, Aug 19 (IANS) A delegation of French senators will visit this headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile this month to meet Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
The delegation, headed by Jean Francois Humbert, senator from Franche Comte province, will arrive here Aug 30, a statement posted on the official web site of the Central Tibetan Administration said Wednesday.

“During the seven-day visit, the senators will have meetings with the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Parliament, the Tibetan cabinet and the 17th Karmapa, Ugyen Trinley Dorjee,” said the statement.

Earlier, Australian parliamentarians visited here in June and met the Dalai Lama and other officials of the government-in-exile.

The Dalai Lama, who along with many of his supporters fled Tibet and took refuge in this hill station in northern India in 1959, has spent the last two decades of his exile campaigning for “meaningful autonomy” for his homeland.

Nearly six million Tibetans live in the Tibet region of China while over 150,000 live in exile, most of them in India.