China News Agency, Beijing, August 15. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met by video on the 15th with the envoys of developing Asian and African countries in Geneva.
The two sides exchanged views on human rights issues, and Wang Yi put forward four suggestions on strengthening global human rights governance and improving the work of multilateral human rights institutions.
Wang Yi pointed out that the first is to uphold mutual respect and oppose imposition on others.
Human rights issues are historical, concrete and real.
Different countries have different national conditions and different histories and cultures. We must proceed from the actual situation of the country and explore a human rights development path that meets the needs of the people.
Capable countries can help developing countries strengthen human rights capacity building with the consent of the countries concerned, but cannot impose their own will and standards on other countries.
The second is to insist on systematic advancement and oppose the choice of favoritism.
The connotation of human rights is comprehensive and rich. It is necessary to protect civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights, including both individual rights and collective rights.
For developing countries, especially the least developed countries, the right to subsistence and development are the most urgent needs of the people.
Multilateral human rights institutions should pay attention to the reasonable demands of all countries, especially developing countries, and further increase their attention and investment in economic, social and cultural rights and the right to development.
The third is to adhere to openness and inclusiveness and oppose interference in internal affairs.
Claiming that the so-called "human rights are higher than sovereignty" is actually an attempt to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries; the implementation of the so-called "value diplomacy" is actually forcing countries to choose sides under the guise of human rights; forcing the so-called "democratic reform", but the result is turmoil Conflict and humanitarian disaster.
The lessons of history should be carefully learned, and these actions should be resisted together.
Multilateral human rights institutions should adhere to the principles of non-selectivity and non-politicization, and become platforms for constructive exchanges and cooperation among all parties, rather than battlefields for political confrontation.
Fourth, uphold fairness and justice and oppose double standards.
Whether a country's human rights situation is good or not depends in the final analysis on whether its people are happy and satisfied.
Some Western countries are keen to be "judges" of human rights. They only use flashlights to show others but not themselves. They point fingers at the human rights situation of developing countries, and turn a blind eye to the human rights abuses of their own countries and their allies. Engage in the practice of selective blindness.
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