'Our contacts and talks failed to make progress and (the Dalai's representatives) should assume full responsibility for it,' the Communist Party said in a statement on talks that took place last week.

'We pointed out... the unification of the motherland, territorial integrity and national dignity are the greatest interests of the Chinese people.... We will never make a concession', said the statement, issued prior to a press conference.

Envoys of the Tibet spiritual leader, who has lived in India for nearly half a century, ended two days of talks on Wednesday with Chinese officials in Beijing.

Mr Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, Mr Kelsang Gyaltsen and three aides left for the Chinese capital on October 30 but only began formal discussions on Tuesday, according to the Tibet government-in-exile in India.

During their visit, the envoys were taken to the Muslim autonomous region of Ningxia by Chinese authorities to demonstrate Beijing's handling of minority concerns, according to the exiled administration.

At Monday's briefing, Mr Zhu Weiqun, executive vice minister of the Communist Party's United Front Work Department, said the talks had centred mostly on the Dalai Lama and his policies.

'We merely talked about how the Dalai Lama should completely give up his splittist opinions and actions and strive for the understanding of the central authorities and all Chinese people so as to solve the issue concerning his own prospects,' Mr Zhu said.

Violence erupted in the Tibetan capital Lhasa on March 14 against Chinese rule, and then spread to other areas of western China with Tibetan populations.

The United Front Work Department is a unit of the Communist Party in charge of contacts with individuals and organisations outside the party. -- AFP