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Lukashenko Pleased at China's Win at UN Human Rights Session
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said Friday that he is pleased at China's victory over a US anti-China bid at the 57th UN human rights session.
"Belarus always supports China's constant position on the issues of human rights. I appreciate China's success at the recent UN human rights session. I congratulate you on your crushing the US intention to put forward an anti-China motion," Lukashenko told an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency in the capital of Minsk on the eve of his upcoming three-day state visit to China, which will begin on Sunday.
West countries like to press on those countries they dislike over the human rights issue. This is their idiomatic trick to interfere into other countries' internal affairs, he noted.
"I have visited China for three times and witnessed China having made great progress in promoting human rights. China has successfully and independently solved the problems of food and clothing for its dozen hundred of millions of population. This is the most important and biggest human right. Only for this, China should be respected and supported," he emphasized.
An anti-China attempt, brewed by the United States, was foiled once again as a China-tabled "no-action" motion was passed by voting in Geneva Wednesday at the 57th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
This is China's 10th victory over the U.S.-led anti-China bid since 1990. It is also the third consecutive defeat sustained by the United States since 1999 when the Americans failed to get anyone to speak for them and had to come out from behind the scenes to do the job themselves.
With 23 votes for, 17 against, 12 abstentions and one absentee, the 53-member commission approved the Chinese motion, thus rejecting the U.S. draft resolution against China before it was put to the vote.
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