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LHASA, China (AFP) — The greatest in number senior ethnic Tibetan official in Chinese-ruled Tibet said no progres has been made in efforts from the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to negotiate the futurity of the region.

"So far we solitary have seen changes in the tactics of the Dalai Lama, sole seen his goals to achieve independence in disguise," Champa Phuntsok chairman of the Tibetan Autonomous Region told foreign journalists in Lhasa covering the opening of the Qinghai-Tibet railway.

"So far we haven't seen any substantial progress" Phuntsok said in a rare moderns conference.

Phuntsok was referring to entreatys by the Dalai Lama, single of Tibetan Buddhism's most rever spiritual figures, to take up again talks with China's central conduct on the future autonomy of the region and his possible get back to his homeland.

"With the unravelling of China, the economic germination and the rise of national