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State Department: US seeks open access to Tibet from China

27 March 2019 07:28 (UTC +04:00)

The United States is pursuing free and open access to Tibetan areas after a US government report concluded that China systematically restricts Americans form accessing the region, US Department of States deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino said in a press briefing on Tuesday, ONA reports citing Sputnik.

"Yesterday, the State Department submitted its first annual report to the Congress regarding United States access to Tibet," Palladino said. "The report concludes that the Chinese government ‘systematically impedes travel to the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Tibetan areas outside the Tibetan Autonomous Region for US officials, journalists and tourists.What we seek here is reciprocity; reciprocity from China regarding open access that China enjoys in the United States."

The report to the US Congress was mandated by the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act, which passed with bipartisan support in December 2018.