Prague, Sep 10 (DPA) China protested Thursday against a Prague visit by Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer.

They arrived in the Czech capital to attend a conference on human rights and democracy in Asia.

Chen Jianjun, spokesman for the Chinese embassy, said the visits were aimed at 'dividing the state and disrupting national unity'.

'The Chinese side is resolutely against it,' he said by telephone. 'We clearly expressed our position to the Czech side.'

The Czech foreign ministry countered that Kadeer was in the Czech Republic on a private visit.

'It is not possible to interpret it as a change of our traditional policy of one China, nor as an expression of support to potential separatist tendencies,' the ministry said in a statement.

Neither the embassy nor the ministry would specify the nature of the Chinese complaint.

The Dalai Lama and Kadeer are to address a conference Friday promoting human rights and democracy in Asia, an event put on by former Czech president Vaclav Havel's foundation Forum 2000.