POLITICAL - DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700210056-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2002
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: March 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
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COUNTRY India; China; Tibet
SUBJECT Political - Diplomatic relationa, international
affairs
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Banaras
DATE
PUBLISHED 1? Sep 1952
LANGUAGE Hindi
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DATE D1ST.'m{l1953
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NU.
CHTNESECOMMUNISTS SET UP CONSULATE GENERAL IN LHASA,
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/osmient: The occunat.ion of Tibet hn4 resulted in the com-
plete domination of that country's political affairs by the Chinese
Communist government. The following article from the Hindi daily
neuv:p per & of banaras indicates the steps taken by the Peiping
government to reduce the level of diplomatic relations between
India and Tibet-.7
New Delhi, 16 September --The External Affairs Ministry of the Indian gov-
ernment announced here today that direct diplomatic relations between Tibet and
India have ended as a result of n treaty signed by the governments of India
and Communist China. According to this treaty, India and China will muttfally
establish one other post of consulate general in addition to those already in
existence in Shanghai and Calcutta. The treaty has reduced the Indian mission
in Lhasa to the level of consulate general and provided for the opening of e
corresponding post in Bombay for the Chinese government.
The Indian commercial agencies in Gy^. tse, Cartok, and Yatung will be main-
tained as before, but their affairs will now come under the jurisdiction of the
Indian consulate general in Lhasa. S. Sinha, who has headed the Indian mission
in Lhasa for the last 2 years, will return to India immediately. He will be re-
placed by A. K. Sen, the newly designated Indian consul general in Lhasa.
The treaty has thus ended 16 years of direct Indian contacts with the Tibetan
government. Modern diplomatic history between India and Tibet goes back to the
tripartite Simla Conference of 1914. The conference was lead by Sir Eenry McMahon
of Britain, who met with the representatives of Tibet and China and finalized an
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agreement whereby China agreed to recognize the automomy of Tibet. Relations
between India and Tibet were first handled through the offices of the Indian
political officer and the commercial agent stationed in Sikkim. Since 1936,
however, Indian contacts with Tibet have been direct, because China's authority
in Tibet was nominal.
The Chinese occupation of Tibet a year ago has changed this relationship.
The change was inevitable, and India had no choice but to accept this arrangement,
because the Chinese Communists n ,-v have complete control of the foreign affairs
of Tibet.
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