British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's meeting
with the Dalai Lama amounted to "interference in China's domestic affairs," said Qin Gang, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, Xinhua news agency reported.
The meeting Friday in London, which had been declared a "private
conversation," had hurt the sentiments of the Chinese people, the
spokesman added, according to the report, reported dpa.
China accuses the Dalai Lama of supporting Tibetan independence and of being
responsible for the mid-March rioting in Tibet.