UN counter-psychological oppression boss welcomed by China to visit
BEIJING: The United Nations counter-psychological oppression boss is visiting China this week, the outside service said Friday.
Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov, the undersecretary-general of the UN counter-psychological oppression office, is in China at the nation's welcome, service representative Geng Shuang said.
He didn't remark on reports Voronkov is setting off to the anxious Xinjiang district in China's far west.
"Increasingly explicit data will be discharged in time," Geng said at a day by day instructions.
Human Rights Watch condemned the United Nations for sending a counterterrorism official rather than a human rights master, saying it dangers redirecting consideration from what it called "a monstrous government rights infringement against the Turkic Muslim populace."
China has confronted worldwide analysis over internment camps in Xinjiang that hold an expected 1 million individuals from the Uighur and other overwhelmingly Muslim ethnic gatherings.
Chinese authorities depict the camps as professional instructional hubs and state they are important to check religious fanaticism.
Geng said China would respect a visit by the UN high chief for human rights, however included, "we will never enable individuals with political purposes to meddle in China's inside issues and harm China's sway and regional respectability with their visit to Xinjiang."
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