(Clearwisdom.net)
Foreign Ministry
Asia and Oceania unit
2005-08-19
Thank you for your letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, dated May 2nd. The
letter was handed over to me, as I work with questions regarding China at the
Asia section of the Foreign Ministry.
I am familiar with what you are describing and I also share your anxiety
regarding the issue of Falun Gong, and how its followers are treated. As you
might know, human rights issues in China are frequently brought up in
discussions with our Chinese counterparts during our many contacts, both from
Sweden and from the EU. For example, every six months we have within the EU a
special human rights dialogue with China, where we go through an extensive
agenda and bring up all the areas where we feel a strong concern regarding how
human rights issues are handled in China. In these as well as in other settings,
we bring forth, both from Sweden and from the EU, our concern regarding how
people practising Falun Gong in China are treated.
Beside the dialogue we also have sharing within seminars and education for
participants from different institutions in China, aiming at improving the
competence within the human rights area among different occupational groups, for
example within the judicial system. We thus try in various ways to influence the
situation in China, when it comes to human rights and I can assure you that this
is a question that we put high on our agenda in our contacts with the Chinese
authorities and members of the government.
Best regards,
Britta Kinnemark
Source: http://clearharmony.net/articles/200511/29826.html
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