China calls for renewed fight against Dalai Lama

The comments were made by Jia Qinglin, who sits on the standing committee of the Chinese Communist Party's powerful politburo.

He said China also needed to raise the living standards of Tibetan people.

The call comes nearly three years after riots and unrest in Tibetan areas which China blamed on the Dalai Lama.

'Handle carefully'

Mr Jia made the comments at a two-day meeting to discuss developments in Tibet and in other provinces where Tibetans live.

The attendance of China's public security minister, Meng Jianzhu, suggests Beijing's control in Tibet was a major issue.

"The fight against the Dalai Lama clique must be continued and deepened," the state-run news agency Xinhua quote Mr Jia as saying.

But he added that initiatives used to ensure stability should be "circumspectly deployed"; Kazinform cites BBC News.

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