The conference, organized by Germany, the United States and Britain, will on Wednesday focus on the situation of the Muslim minority Uighurs in the area.

Several countries, including the United States, have criticized Chinese authorities for systematically violating the human rights of Uighurs in Xinjiang.

Up to one million people are said to have been put in what is like concentration camps with forced labor, something China firmly denies.

Now the news agency Reuters has read a document from China's UN delegation which is intended to call on other UN countries to boycott the meeting this week.

According to them, the organizers want to create "turbulence and division" in China.

"They are obsessed with provoking a confrontation with China," the delegation wrote in the document, which at 01.30 Swedish time had not yet commented on Reuters' information.

"Trying to bully into silence"

According to the human rights organization Human Rights Watch, which together with Amnesty plans to attend the meeting, China is trying to silence the information about the situation in Xinjiang.

"Beijing has been trying for years to bully governments into silence, but the strategy has failed.

"More and more states are expressing horror at China's crimes against the Uighurs and other Muslim minorities," Louis Charbonneau, UN director of Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.

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China's ambassador to Sweden, Gui Congyou, calls the measures in Xinjiang counter-terrorism.

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