China, under pressure from international community to open dialogue with the Dalai Lama [Images], on Friday said it will soon have a meeting with a 'private representative' of Tibetan spiritual leader.

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'In view of the requests repeatedly made by the Dalai side for resuming talks, the relevant department of the central government will have contact and consultation with Dalai's private representative in the coming days,' Xinhua news agency said quoting an unnamed official.

'The policy of the central government towards Dalai has been consistent and the door of dialogue has remained open,' the official was quoted as saying.

China has been insisting that the doors for the dialogue with the Dalai Lama, living in exile in India, were open but he must give up what it called his 'separatist activities', stop attempts to 'sabotage' the Beijing [Images] Olympics [Images] and accept Tibet [Images] and Taiwan as inalienable parts of China.

The Dalai Lama, whom China has accused of having orchestrated the recent violence in Tibet and elsewhere during the most vicious anti-government protests in two decades that have left 20 people dead, has insisted that he was not seeking independence of Tibet and was ready for a dialogue with the Chinese government.

'It is hoped that through contact and consultation, the Dalai side will take credible moves to stop activities aimed at splitting China, stop plotting and inciting violence and stop disrupting and sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games so as to create conditions for talks,' Xinhua quoted the official as saying.