Rights panelists decry Western take on Tibet

Diplomats and human rights experts from China and abroad on Wednesday urged foreign countries to stay out of the Tibet issue.

The issue in Tibet is China's internal affair, "so nobody should go and intervene in it", Lovelia Cabrera Laping, special assistant to the undersecretary of the Philippines' Foreign Ministry, told the Xinhua News Agency.

Laping was commenting on an article in the Washington Post by US Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky, in which she said the Tibet issue reflected "China's long-standing repression of religious, cultural and other freedoms".