China News Agency, Macau, July 2nd. In response to the U.S. State Department’s "2020 Trafficking in Persons Report" (hereinafter referred to as the report), the Macau Special Administrative Region has been rated as a second-level surveillance category. The Office of the Secretary for Security of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government responded on the 2nd, saying, Relevant thesis is full of biased interpretations, arbitrary and unfounded subjective speculations in an attempt to confuse the international community.
The Macau security authorities are firmly opposed.
The Office of the Secretary for Security of Macau stated that the Macau Special Administrative Region Government has been unremittingly combating human trafficking crimes, actively carrying out the prevention of human trafficking and protecting victims, and continuing to follow up and evaluate the implementation of various tasks, and law enforcement has been effective.
Therefore, Macao has always maintained a good situation with a low or zero incident rate in the crime of human trafficking.
The Macao security authorities reiterated that they will continue to carry out relevant law enforcement work under the supervision of the judicial authorities, and strengthen international and regional exchanges and cooperation, jointly discuss prevention and combat strategies, and work together to eliminate human trafficking and all forms of exploitation.
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