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China’s uncalled for gloating over UN’s adoption of its rights review report

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(TibetanReview.net, Jul05’24) – China has sought to gloat over the fact that the UN human rights Council, Geneva, has “unanimously” approved the 4th Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of its human rights record on Jul 4 as if this amounted to unanimous approval of its human rights record. In fact, a number of countries have expressed serious concern at the gravity of the situation not only in China itself but also in Tibet, Xinjiang, and elsewhere and Beijing’s continued refusal to address them both during the UPR hearing and when the report came up for adoption.

The only countries that praised it, even if many, were those with serious human rights problems of their own and that had been lobbied by China to be present and speak for it. China’s official globaltimes.cn, reporting Jul 5 on the report’s adoption, mentioned some of them. “Russia, Venezuela, Uzbekistan, Gambia, Vietnam, and many other countries at the meeting positively assessed China’s efforts and achievements in human rights development.”

In fact, during the UPR hearing to evaluate China’s record, 21 states made substantial criticism of its human rights record in Tibet – the largest number since China underwent its first review in 2009, said Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (savetibet.org) Jul 4.

Criticism of China’s human rights record, including in Tibet, was galore even at the meeting for the adoption of the report.

The United Kingdom made the following scathing statement: “China tried to claim that the Office of the High Commissioners’ authoritative Xinjiang assessment is, and I quote: illegal and void. It is neither. Let me again urge China to end its persecution and arbitrary detention of Uighurs and Tibetans and to allow genuine freedom of religion and expression.”

It “again” urged China to “end its persecution and arbitrary detention of Uyghurs and Tibetans and to allow genuine freedom of religion or belief and cultural expression,” and so forth.

Likewise, the United States said, “The United States condemns the human rights abuses in Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and across China.”

China brought a large delegation to the meeting. “Representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Supreme People’s Court, as well as delegates from the Xizang Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Hong Kong, and Macao Special Administrative Regions also attended as members of the Chinese government delegation,” said the globaltimes.cn report.

The report also said, “After the Human Rights Council approved China’s report, the venue resounded with warm applause, and many representatives from other countries congratulated the Chinese delegation.”

Nevertheless, Ambassador Chen Xu, Permanent Representative of China to the UN Office at Geneva and other international organizations in Switzerland, who led the Chinese government delegation, has felt constrained to vent his anger at the criticisms China had received throughout the UPR process.

“China firmly opposes the politicization, instrumentalization, and weaponization of human rights issues, and firmly opposes using human rights issues as an excuse to interfere in China’s internal affairs,” the report cited him as saying.

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