National Assembly passes resolution denouncing China's 'genocide' of Uighurs

The National Assembly adopted Thursday, January 20, a few days before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, a resolution denouncing the "

" of the Uighurs by China, and asking the government to do the same.

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The text, without binding scope, defended at the podium by the First Secretary of the PS Olivier Faure as part of a day reserved for the socialist group, received the support of the deputies of the presidential party LREM and was adopted almost unanimously. (169 votes for, one against and five abstentions).