Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks at a Security Council meeting on the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) at the UN headquarters in New York, Sept. 27, 2021.  (Xinhua)

 
China’s ambassador to the United Nations (UN) on Monday slammed the US’ groundless comments on issues related to Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet and called on the US to put aside its arrogance and prejudice.

China's permanent representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun made the remarks at the seventy-sixth session of the Third Committee of the General Assembly. 

Zhang stressed that China firmly opposes the abuse of the platform of UN to deliberately provoke confrontation and fabricate human rights issues to interfere in China's internal affairs. He urged the US not to go further down the wrong path.

The envoy said that claims of so-called "forced labor" and "genocide" in Xinjiang is the "lie of the century" made by previous US administration, but the current administration has inherited all the lies and continues to follow the old path of "dishonest diplomacy."

Lies repeated a thousand times are still lies. Countless facts have proven that the US’ accusations are groundless and made out of its own political needs to cause chaos and contain China’s overall development. China firmly opposes and rejects this, said the envoy.

Meanwhile, Zhang called on the international community to pay attention to the human rights situation in the US, pointing out that the US chose to ignore its bloody suppression of native Americans and enslaving African Americans, attempting to bury its dark past in history. 

The country often regards itself as a defender of democracy and human rights, but in fact, it is the biggest destroyer of democracy and human rights, he said, noting that world needs dialogue rather than confrontation, and countries should choose cooperation rather than creating division.

"I hope that the US will return to the right track of dialogue and cooperation, and take practical and positive steps for the promotion and protection of human rights," said Zhang.

At the same session, representatives from countries including Cuba, Syria and North Korea also made remarks, criticizing US’ unreasonable accusations and opposing US intervention of other countries’ internal affairs using human rights as an excuse. 

Global Times-Agencies