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The Dalai Lama arrived in the U.S capital on Monday. The Dalai Lama is being presented with the Lantos Human Rights Prize on Tuesday. President Barack Obama's meeting with the the Dalai Lama has been delayed until after the American president attends a summit with Chinese President Hu Jintao in November. This is the first time in 18 years the exiled Tibetan leader has visited Washington without seeing the sitting U.S. president. The decision to break precedent and delay any meeting was conveyed to the Dalai Lama last month when Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and State Department Undersecretary Maria Otero traveled to Dharamsala, India. China sent its troops into Tibet in 1950 and the Dalai Lama fled to India a few years later to establish a government in exile. Negotiations between China and the Dalai Lama's envoys were suspended last year, provoking violence in Tibet.
