US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday welcomed the UN report on alleged human rights violations in China's Xinjiang region, demanding that Beijing be held accountable for this "genocide".

"This report reinforces and reaffirms our serious concerns about the ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Chinese authorities" against the Muslim Uyghur minority, Antony Blinken said in a statement.

“We will continue to hold the Chinese authorities to account and call on them to release all those who are held in detention without justification (…) and to allow unrestricted access by independent investigators to the possibility of “crimes against the Humanity, “said the head of American diplomacy. of genocide.

"We will continue to hold the Chinese authorities to account and call on them to release all those held in detention without justification ... and to allow unrestricted access to independent investigators in Xinjiang, Tibet, and through China,” said the head of American diplomacy.

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