-- From March 30 to April 2, a delegation comprising Vladimir Norov, secretary-general of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and more than 30 diplomats from some 21 countries, visited Xinjiang. -- They talked with locals from various sectors of society, visited local schools and enterprises, and debunked rumors about Xinjiang, a region whose image is frequently distorted by some Western politicians, organizations and media.
A farmer ploughs in a field with a tractor in Bachu County, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, March 28, 2021. (Xinhua/Ma Kai) URUMQI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Tractors are busy plowing cotton fields in Bachu County, one of the cotton hubs in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, as the season for cotton sowing arrives.
BELGRADE, March 30 (Xinhua) -- The false allegations about human rights in Xinjiang are an interference in China's internal affairs and are caused by fear of some Western countries about loss of their global dominance, Zivadin Jovanovic, a Serbian career diplomat and politician, told Xinhua. Jovanovic, former minister of foreign affairs of Yugoslavia, said in a recent interview with Xinhua that the attempts of the United States and some Western countries to slow down China's progress with false allegations over the human rights situation in Xinjiang are the result of their "fear of the stability and fast efficient progress in China" -- and are unlawful.
GENEVA, March 29 (Xinhua) -- China firmly opposes and categorically rejects stigmatization by certain Western countries and anti-China forces against Xinjiang, the Chinese Mission to the United Nations (UN) Office at Geneva said on Monday. Denouncing the Working Group on Business and Human Rights, "together with a few other special procedures" of the Human Rights Council for maliciously distorting facts and spreading lies of "forced labor" in Xinjiang, Liu Yuyin, spokesperson for the Chinese Mission to the UN Office at Geneva, said in a statement that the working group "chose a wrong target when it tried to stigmatize China.
