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Title: No
Prosperity without Respect for Human Rights (2007.06.04)
Date: May 6, 2007
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No Prosperity without Respect for Human
Rights
For immediate release
June 4, 2007,
Contact: World Uyghur Congress:
Tel. +49 (89) 54321999
Fax: +49 (89) 54349789
contact@uyghurcongress.org
Munich: This years meeting of the heads of the seven
leading industrialized nations plus Russia (the G8
summit) is scheduled for June 6-8 in Heiligendamm,
Germany. Through this annual forum, the members discuss
serious international problems that the whole of
humanity is facing. The agenda covered security,
environmental, development policy issues. Another
important issue for the G8 summit is protection of
intellectual property rights that is discussed with
emerging economies such as China and India. On May 24,
2007, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in her
keynote speech at the World Economic Forum at Davos,
summed up the agenda for the G8 2007 with the slogan
Growth and Responsibility.
The World Uyghur Congress appreciates G8s stance on
respect for human rights as vital for establishing an
open, developed and democratic society. This is
expressed by G8 leaders recognition at their Genoa
summit in 2001 as follows: "open, democratic and
accountable systems of governance, based on respect for
human rights and the rule of law, are preconditions for
sustainable development and robust growth."
The G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany comes at a
critical time for global security and development. As
the world faces new challenges in containing the
proliferation of conflict, sustaining economic
development and the degradation of the human rights
situation in many countries across the world, such
comprehensive and urgent approaches to security and
development have never been more urgent. The World
Uyghur Congress hopes that along with other critical
issues on the agenda of the G8 summit, the human rights
issues will also be the focus of discussion on
corporation with emerging economies, in particular with
China. Chinas presence at the G8 summit will give other
leading industrialized nations another chance to press
the emerging giant for a clear commitment on resolving
the egregious human rights crisis in Darfur abroad and
on the improvement of the human rights situation at
home. An ancient Chinese adage says a man incapable of
running his family cannot run a country which means that
a country, like China, which has been irrespective of
the rights and freedoms of its own people is also
irresponsible for serious global problems, to which the
G8 summit is currently trying to find solutions.
Strictly speaking, there will be no prosperity, security
and hope for the whole of humanity, if the fundamental
human rights is in danger in some parts of the world.
On the occasion of the G8 summit, the World Uyghur
Congress calls upon the G8 summit to take the efficient
and results-oriented measures to help ensure that human
rights dialogue with China is fully integrated into the
G8 actions concerning development, security and global
responsibility. The World Uyghur Congress urges the G8
to take initiative to discuss with China the key human
rights issues relating to the ratification of the UN
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, reform of the
criminal justice system including the death penalty and
the re-education through labour system, freedom of
expression, and respect for minority rights in Tibet,
East Turkistan and Inner Mongolia.
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