The minister of foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian urged Beijing to allow access to the Xuar for independent observers and international.
Paris monte the your face in Beijing. Jean-Yves le Drian has denounced Tuesday the detention of members of the muslim minority uighur and turkic in China, calling the practice “unacceptable”. The minister of foreign Affairs has demanded that Beijing allow the access of independent observers, international in Xinjiang. “France is watching with great attention the set of testimonies relayed by the press and the organizations of defense of Human rights”, said Jean-Yves le Drian on Wednesday before the national Assembly.
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“This is all the information that we have, or read, what are internment camps for Uighurs, the mass detentions, disappearances, forced labour, forced sterilization, destruction of cultural heritage in uyghur and in particular places of worship, the monitoring of the population and, more generally, all the repressive system put in place in this region”, he continued.
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Applause in the national Assembly
“All of these practices are unacceptable. We condemn with great firmness”, stated Jean-Yves Le Drian, eliciting applause in the chamber. “In the immediate future, we request that China allow access to independent observers, international in this area and that it allows the High commissioner for human rights (UN) to visit Xinjiang in freedom”.
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In the morning, interviewed on the radio France Info, the French minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire, has also referred to a practice “outrageous and unacceptable, and (that) we strongly condemn”. This question “should obviously be part of the discussion that we have with our chinese partners”, added the minister, without pronouncing on the existence of possible imports from France of masks that would be produced in centers of internment, forced into China.
China denies
Washington, like other western capitals, as well as organisations for the defence of human rights, accuses China of having interned in the Xinjiang region at least a million muslims. China denies this figure and says that it is the vocational training centres, intended to help people to find a job in order to keep her away from the temptation of islamist extremism.
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The Uighurs are the main ethnic group in Xinjiang (in northwest China), a huge region which has common borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Regularly hit by deadly attacks, is assigned by Beijing to be separatist or islamist uighurs, it is under high police surveillance.
