The European Union today “welcomed” a UN report on alleged human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, joining its voice in the UN experts’ call for “close monitoring” of the situation.
The long-awaited report, released Tuesday evening by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, “highlights the serious human rights violations taking place in Xinjiang, which could, according to the report, constitute international crimes , mainly crimes against humanity,” European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said.
“As the report states, the human rights situation” in Xinjiang “requires urgent attention from the Chinese government, the United Nations, as well as the international community more broadly. The EU joins the call made by UN experts to to closely monitor and assess the human rights situation in China,” Borrell stressed.
In the US, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken welcomed the UN report demanding that Beijing be held accountable for this “genocide”.
“This report reinforces and confirms our grave concerns regarding the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese authorities” against the Uyghur Muslim minority, Blinken said in a statement.
“We will continue to hold the Chinese authorities to account and call on them to release all those who remain in arbitrary detention and to allow unrestricted access to independent investigators in Xinjiang, Tibet and across China,” said the head of the US diplomacy.
SOURCE: AMPE
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