French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, is welcomed by the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was holding a long-awaited meeting with the Dalai Lama in the face of sharp protests from Beijing. The French president and the Tibetan spiritual leader were meeting in Gdansk on Saturday during celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of former Polish President Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize. AP Photo logo AP Photo 14 months ago

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, is welcomed by the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 6, 2008. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was holding a long-awaited meeting with the Dalai Lama in the face of sharp protests from Beijing. The French president and the Tibetan spiritual leader were meeting in Gdansk on Saturday during celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of former Polish President Lech Walesa's Nobel Peace Prize.

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  8. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, bottom, prays after the inauguration of newly constructed Rigon Thupten Mindolling monastery in Jeerang about 300 kilometers (188 miles) from Bhubneswar, India, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.
  9. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, holds a traditional Tibetan cap of Namkha Drimmed Rinpoche, the main priest of the Rigon Thupten Mindolling monastery during its inauguration in Jeerang about 300 kilometers (188 miles) from Bhubneswar, India, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. The Dalai Lama inaugurated the newly constructed monastery Tuesday.
  10. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, attends a prayer session at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Patna, India, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. Bodh Gaya is the town where Prince Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment after intense meditation and became the Buddha.
  11. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, right, administers polio vaccine to an infant at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Patna, India, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010. India is observing National Immunization Day Sunday to eradicate polio. Every year, the country mobilizes more than 2 million health workers for an immunization day, visiting more than 200 million homes.
  12. Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrives to begin a series of lectures at Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, about 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Patna, India, Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010. Bodh Gaya is the town where Prince Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment after intense meditation and became the Buddha. The lectures will continue till Dec.9. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh.
  13. Former polish President Lech Walesa, center, talks to "Damas en Blanco", Spanish for Women in White, Yolanda Huerga, left, and Josefa Lopez Sigler, right, during a visit to Miami, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010. Walesa attended a privately funded, foundation for Human Rights in Cuba, which sends aid to political dissidents in Cuba.
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  15. Former Solidarnocz (solidarity) trade union leader and former Polish President Lech Walesa attends an event marking Romania's 1989 anti-communist revolt in Timisoara, about 550 km (340 miles) west of Bucharest, December 15, 2009. More than 1,000 Romanians were killed across Romania during clashes between demonstrators and Ceausescu's security forces, in what amounted to eastern Europe's most violent anti-communist revolution 20 years ago.
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