Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi on Wednesday urged the United States to stop meddling in China's internal affairs through the Tibet issue.

During his talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Yang reaffirmed the principled position of the Chinese government on Tibet-related issues, expressing the Chinese side's resolute opposition and strong indignation over some recent statements made by the US administration and over the adoption on Wednesday by the US House of Representatives of a resolution on Tibet introduced by a handful of anti-China US Congressmen.

Foreign ministry's press briefing

China on Thursday lodged a solemn representation over the US Congress' approval of a Tibet resolution on Wednesday.

"The Chinese government and people are strongly dissatisfied with and resolutely opposed the approval of a Tibet resolution by the US Congress," Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu told a regular press briefing.

(Xinhua News Agency March 12, 2009)