As scheduled, the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama on Wednesday left for the United States to meet President Barack Obama. The meeting which has angered China, will become part of the Dalai Lama’s campaign to cast a global spotlight on the conditions of Tibet.

The monk who lived in exile in India since 1959 it would start his visit to greet Tibetan Losar fellow citizens.

Government Obama has raised concerns about human rights in Tibet, but the planned meeting with the monk as 74 private meetings. Therefore the meeting will be held at the White House Map Room, not in the Oval Office.

Beijing opposed to any meeting with the Dalai Lama, considered the decision of the United States as something wrong and the impact on US-China relations. But the Dalai Lama’s advisers dismissed the criticism of China and thought something unusual.

“The meeting at the White House will give a special message to those who live in Tibet. They would feel encouraged that the president of the United States, the global superpower, willing to meet with the Holy Father. It means the world has not forgotten them,” said the Dalai Lama’s secretary, Chhime Chhoekyapa .

The Dalai Lama has been several times to the United States and meet the country’s leaders, including George HW Bush in 1991. While Obama, last year did not meet the Dalai Lama because of criticism from within the country at the beginning of his reign.

Obama has asked for extensive cooperation with China, but since the early years of strained relations since the two plan to meet the Dalai Lama Obama and approval of arms sales package of 6.4 billion dollars to Taiwan.

Leonard Leo, Chairman of the International Religious Liberty Commission of the United States, a government advisory board, said he hoped that Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama is not just talking about politik.Obama should seek advice about how to think creatively to overcome thorny problems in Tibet.

“Objection Obama Beijing for a meeting with the Dalai Lama should not hinder efforts to bridge the government’s plans to improve the living standards of Tibetans and the demands for freedom of religion and protection of their culture and unique language,” said Leo.

The Dalai Lama said he accepted the government of his homeland China, where Beijing sent troops in 1950. But he refused to cap Beijing’s government called it a wolf in monk’s clothing “and accusing him advocate separatism.

A court in Australia, Monday, five men sentenced to prison from 23 to 28 years after the terrorist attacks proved prepared by stockpiling explosives and weapons.

Judge Anthony Whealy of the Court of New South Wales says, he has little hope that the men aged 25 to 44 years it can be rehabilitated. According to him, they are motivated by intolerance and rigid religious beliefs, and showed resistance to the Australian Government, the leaders of this country, and its legal system.

The men were found guilty on the charges in October and in preparation for a terrorist act linked between July 2004 and November 2005. The Australian-born men or naturalized citizen of the Muslim immigrant background that has been declared not guilty of what is alleged.

According to the judges, they proved to have a supply of chemical explosives and weapons, though not known what the target of their attacks. In the trial, a former partner of the defendant testified that the group considers to blow up the football finals in Melbourne in 2005 which was attended by approximately 92,000 people. The prosecutor said the group also discussed for the killing of former Prime Minister, John Howard.

Whealy restrict the media to publicize the names of the men. One of them had paramilitary training in terrorist camps in Pakistan. Three other people had the same training at a camp in New South Wales. All training is preparation for an attack on Australian territory.