The US decision to introduce an anti-China human rights motion at
the session of the UN Human Rights?Commission is a "serious
interference in China's internal affairs," Chinese Foreign Ministry
spokesman Kong Quan said in Beijing Tuesday.
The Chinese government and people express strong indignation at
and are firmly opposed to the US move, Kong said in a prepared
statement.
Kong said that the US decision was made with a domestic
political motive rather than care for human rights, and was an
attempt to interfere in China’s internal affairs under the guise of
human rights.
Kong stressed that the US decision has politicized the human
rights issue, and therefore tarnished the sacred cause of human
rights. Such an unpopular attempt will be futile, he said.
"The Chinese government has paid great attention to the
promotion of human rights and earnestly implemented the human
rights convention it has joined," Kong said.
China has been strengthening its construction of democracy and
the rule of law and its reform of the judicial system in order to
improve the protection of human rights, Kong said. He noted that
China wrote a clause concerning the respect and protection of human
rights into its Constitution earlier this month.
Kong said China has made remarkable progress in the protection
of human rights and has won wide praise from the international
community.
Recognizing that differences exist between China and the United
States on the issue of human rights, Kong said such differences
should be properly addressed through dialogue and exchange "on the
basis of equality and mutual respect."
"China has made unremitting efforts and showed utmost sincerity
and flexibility in this regard," he said.
(Xinhua News Agency March 23, 2004)