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Staff and representatives of the Offices of Tibet, together with selected staff from the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) attended a training session on international diplomacy and advocacy at Heritage Village in Gurgaon, just south of Delhi,from July 18. The five day session was organised by the Department of Information and International Relations (DIIR) of the CTA.
Tashi Phuntsok, the Information Secretary at the DIIR, said that the training aimed to equip and empower participants with the skill sets required in dealing with international diplomacy and advocacy while representing Tibet in the international community.
Topics covered by the training were Tibetan history, foreign offices of Tibet, India’s role in Sino-Tibetan issues, engaging world media to sustain the Tibetan cause, Chinese outreach, the United Nations and issues relating to Tibet, the legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, relations between Tibetans inside Tibet and CTA etc.
Thirty five participants attended, including staff from the Offices of Tibet across the world, DIIR staff and other representatives from CTA departments. They had the opportunity to hear from a wide range of people with experience of foreign affairs and international advocacy. Speakers included four former Indian Foreign Secretaries,Dr Shashi Tharoo, Ambassador Shivshankar Menon, Ambassador Nirupama Rao, Ambassador Shyam Saran, Ambassador Lalit Mansingh, as well as leading Tibetan from this field including Kasur Tashi Wangdi, Kasur Tempa Tsering, and Thupten Samphel, Director of the Tibet Policy Institute.
This is the second such training organised by DIIR, the first was held in 2015 in Washington DC in America.
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