UK Would Meet Xinjiang Governor to Protest ‘Abhorrent’ Abuses
- Britain’s foreign office says governor won’t meet ministers
- Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith calls visit ‘propaganda coup’
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British officials are prepared to meet with the governor of China’s western region of Xinjiang, but the government said that any talks during a potential visit to the UK would be used to raise the issue of human rights violations against the Uyghurs.
Britain “must be prepared to use diplomatic channels” and “officials would be prepared to offer him a meeting,” Foreign Office minister Leo Docherty said in the House of Commons on Thursday. Any talks with Erkin Tuniyaz, who may visit the UK next week, would be used “to make absolutely clear the UK’s abhorrence of the treatment of the Uyghur people,” Docherty said.