The representative of China urges relevant Western countries to resolve their own human rights issues
Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, February 24. On February 24, Chen Xu, the Permanent Representative of China in Geneva, delivered a speech in the defense session of the 46th meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, urging relevant Western countries to stop interfering in other countries’ internal affairs under the pretext of human rights issues. Make sincere efforts to solve their own human rights issues.
Chen Xu said that during this high-level meeting, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Germany, the United States, Canada and others abused the Human Rights Council platform to make groundless accusations against China and interfere in China's internal affairs. The Chinese side expressed strong opposition and resolute rejection.
Chen Xu said that China takes the people's yearning for a better life as its goal, and strives to promote the comprehensive and coordinated development of economic, social, and cultural rights, as well as civil and political rights, and has achieved great achievements including the elimination of absolute poverty.
1.4 billion people are the masters of the country, live and work in peace and contentment, share fairness, justice, development and prosperity.
The people of all ethnic groups across the country are united as one, forge ahead in unity, and march towards a new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
This is the greatest human rights practice and the greatest human rights achievement.
Chen Xu stated that the relevant countries disregard the facts, fabricate and spread lies about Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, etc., and maliciously slander China.
This violation of justice and conscience has caused strong indignation among the Chinese people.
These countries fantasize to smear China's image, undermine China's stability, and impede China's development process. Their attempts will never succeed.
What they have done fully exposes that human rights are nothing but a tool for political manipulation.
Chen Xu said that if these countries sincerely promote and protect human rights, they should not provoke war everywhere, causing a large number of civilians to be destroyed and displaced; they should not shelter overseas soldiers who have committed war crimes and cause repeated killings of innocent civilians. ; It should not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and destroy the peaceful and peaceful life of the people of other countries.
If they sincerely promote and protect human rights, they should provide adequate technical and financial assistance to help developing countries achieve sustainable development, narrow the North-South gap, and eradicate poverty and hunger on a global scale; they should immediately abolish the list of countries targeting developing countries. While compulsory measures, abandon vaccine "nationalism" and ensure a fair global distribution of vaccines.
If they sincerely promote and protect human rights, they should insist on life first and take effective measures to prevent and control the epidemic, instead of shirk their responsibilities and blame others; they should solve their deep-rooted racial discrimination, disparity between the rich and the poor, social injustice, police violence, etc. Human rights issues, protection of the rights of refugees and immigrants, closure of immigration detention centers that abuse immigrants.
Chen Xu finally stated that China urges these countries to make sincere efforts to resolve their own human rights issues, and participate in international human rights exchanges and cooperation in a fair, objective and constructive manner, and stop interfering in other countries’ internal affairs under the pretext of human rights issues and serving their own political plots.