China calls for dialogue, cooperation in human rights

Full text: Wang Chen: China registers historic

progress in human rights

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Chinese media) -- The international

community should deal with human rights issues through dialogues and

cooperation, a senior Chinese official said here on Tuesday.

"In promoting human rights, only by carrying out

constructive dialogues, exchange and cooperation on the basis of equality and

mutual respect, ... can all countries in the world achieve common progress and

development," said Wang Chen, minister in charge of the State Council

Information Office.

In an interview with the Human Rights journal,

affiliated to the China society for Human Rights Studies, Wang said countries in

the world should enhance mutual understanding, and learn from each other’s

experiences, instead of confronting each other.

Wang said some countries and regional groups had

"politicized and ideologized human rights by practicing double standards, flying

the 'human rights' flag to negate the sovereignty of other countries and carry

out power politics."

This would seriously spoil the atmosphere of

international cooperation in and obstruct the healthy development of human

rights in the world, Wang said.

The minister said people in different countries have

different understandings and demands with regard to human rights and their human

rights problems that need priority solution also vary.

"Under the precondition of recognizing the

universality of human rights, all governments and people have the right to adopt

different policy measures according to their respective national conditions to

seek human rights development best suited to their country," he said.

He called on the nations to focus on the "prominent

problems in the present-day" world, such as armed conflicts, terrorism,

environmental pollution, hunger, poverty, uneven economic development and the

growing South-North gap, all seriously threatening human rights in the world,

the minister said.

"Dialogue and cooperation are conducive not only to

human rights progress in all countries, but also to the harmonious and healthy

development of human rights in the world," Wang said.

Power politics, on the other hand, contributes

nothing to human rights development, and would poison the international

relations and harm the healthy growth of the cause of human rights in the

world," he said.

Wang Chen: China registers historic progress in human rights

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Chinese media) -- On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening up, Wang Chen, director of the State Council Information Office, accepted an exclusive interview by the Human Rights journal, during which he gave a positive appraisal of the position and role of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, expounded China's basic views on human rights and achievements in human rights development and visualized the prospects of human rights development in China and the world as a whole. Full story

China acknowledges human rights

problems, but confident of prospect

BEIJING, Dec. 9 (Chinese media) -- China's human rights

development still had "quite a few things less than satisfactory", but would see

progress as the modernization drive went on, a top official said here on

Tuesday.

"Due to natural, historical, cultural and economic

and social factors, there are still many problems and difficulties in the

development of human rights," said Wang Chen, minister in charge of the State

Council Information Office. Full story