Sikyong Penpa Tsering says not all US assistance for Tibetans may have been paused

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(TibetanReview.net, Mar05’25) – President Donald J Trump’s Jan 20 decision to pause all US foreign development assistance programmes for 90 days pending a comprehensive review has affected a major portion of US aid programs for Tibetans, but possibly not all of them, Sikyong (executive head) Mr Penpa Tsering of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) said Mar 3.

Earlier, addressing the Tibetan public at the Bylakuppe Tibetan Settlement in Karnataka state of India, the Tibetan Sikyong said the CTA had been informed by the US government on Mar 27 of the latter’s discontinuation of aid to the Tibetan exile community. US aid programs for Tibetans are administered under the US Agency for International ...

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