A transmitted resolution denouncing a “serious risk of genocide” was to be examined on February 4, the opening day of the Beijing Olympics.
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France will not take the risk of offending China on the opening day of the Beijing Olympics, Friday, February 4th. At the National Assembly, that day was a debate on a motion for a resolution denouncing “a serious risk of ongoing genocide” against the Uygoure Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region in China. Monday, January 24, the Presidency of the Assembly decided to remove it from the agenda. This long-standing schedule had not been thought according to the sporting event, but raised pure parliamentary cuisine.
This transmittal text was carried by the member for opposition Frédérique Dumas for many months and was to be discussed as part of the parliamentary initiative day of his group, freedoms and territories (Lt, which brings together center elected representatives left and right center).
A first resolution, presented by the Socialist and Related Group, was adopted on January 20 (169 votes for, 1 against, 5 abstentions). Qualified as a “historic” by the Uygur Institute of Europe, it recognizes and denounces “the genocidary character” of the ongoing repression in China, today very widely documented.
“The text of the Socialists did not allow to act, explains Frédérique Dumas, ours yes, in that he resumed, with this different object, the case law of the International Court of Justice established in the issue of Bosnia. : If States are aware of a serious risk of genocide, they are obliged in the context of the International Convention for the Prevention and Repression of Genocide Crime. “
” Symbolic “
The British House of Commons, such as the Belgian Parliament, followed this route deemed stronger legally, with a view to calling for an independent international investigation in Xinjiang.
According to the member, the presidential majority contentedly approved a text that she herself recognized as “symbolic”. “The only concern of my colleagues in the market was how China was going to take the day on the opening of the Olympics. President Emmanuel Macron does not want to interfere with his relationship with Beijing”.
Although the two texts do not have the same object, nor the same consequences, Richard Ferrand, the President of the National Assembly, judged in a letter addressed to the group LT Tuesday that it was the “Same topic”. “By twice, at a week apart, it would be proposed to the National Assembly to take a position on the crimes perpetrated against the hears and to invite the Government to guide his diplomatic action accordingly”, what Would not allow the regulation, it writes to justify the impossibility of examining the resolution of M me Dumas signed by 50 members.