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Exclusive | EU and China to resume human rights dialogue next week, days before Xinjiang chief visits Brussels
- Discussions will build on pledge after last April’s bilateral summit and take place in Brussels, sources tell Post
- Resumption to happen just before arrival of senior Chinese official alleged to have played role in abuses
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The European Union and China will next week relaunch a human rights dialogue that stalled after a tit-for-tat sanctioning blitz two years ago.
EU sources confirmed that talks would take place in Brussels at the end of next week, following a pledge to resume them during the EU-China summit last April.
The Chinese delegation will be led by a deputy director general from Beijing’s Department of International Organisations and Conferences under the country’s foreign ministry, separate sources confirmed, while the EU will be represented by human rights staff in its External Action Service (EEAS).
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The dialogue will be the 38th edition of the prickly discussions, which were suspended after the EU sanctioned four Chinese government officials for alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in March 2021.
The Chinese government has been accused of conducting a widespread campaign of persecution against Uygurs and other ethnic Muslim groups in the northwest territory.
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