The British Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday (February 14) that the deputy secretary of the party committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the chairman of the district government, Elken Tuniazi, who had originally planned to visit Britain this week.Members of the British Parliament once strongly opposed their plans for visiting Britain and accused them of invasion of human rights in Xinjiang.
According to Reuters, Britain previously stated that if Tuniazi visits the UK this week, British officials will be prepared to meet him to express concern about Xinjiang's human rights.However, these plans were strongly opposed by parliamentarians, and they emphasized that the region involved Uyghur human rights.
A spokesman for the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: "According to us, the chairman of Xinjiang Autonomous Region has canceled visiting Britain.""
The United States, the United Kingdom and other Western countries have always accused the Chinese government's measures to implement human rights in Xinjiang, including the implementation of forced labor, torture and random detention for Muslim ethnic minorities in the region.But the Chinese government denied these allegations.
Tuniaz was sanctioned by the United States in 2021.The US Treasury Department pointed out at the time that during Tuniaz, more than 1 million -dimensional mini -ethnic minorities were detained in Xinjiang.The British Parliament also passed a statement of non -binding statement last year, saying that Xinjiang is implementing anti -human crimes and racial extinction.
Leo Dochery, the junior minister of the British Foreign Ministry last Thursday (9th), told Congress that Tuniazi may visit the UK next week, but the British side has not confirmed Tuniazi.Whether it is done.
He made it clear at the time that Britain did not invite him to visit, so Tuniaz would not meet with any ministerial official, but he might meet with officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
