After the governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Lithuania summoned the Chinese ambassador to their countries in retaliation against the European Union, Italy summoned the Chinese ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, on March 24 to protest the ban on entry imposed by the Chinese Communist Party on several European parliamentarians in support of Xinjiang and to reiterate Italy’s position in defense of human rights and freedoms. When Li Junhua appeared before the Italian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee on March 24, legislators from the Lega, Italy’s most popular party, walked out in protest.
The Communist ambassador left the meeting in protest.
Li Junhua, the Chinese ambassador to Italy, said in a sarcastic tone when he attended the hearing of the Italian Foreign Affairs Committee on the 24th that some “political viruses” are worse than epidemics.
His words aroused the discontent of the Alliance Party MPs, who walked out of the meeting in protest.
The party then tweeted that the Chinese Communist Party ignores the legitimate demands of its own people for freedom and democracy, and why Italians have to endure the lectures of the authoritarian Chinese government in their own parliament.
Matteo Salvini, president of the Alliance Party, said in an interview with local Italian television on the evening of the 24th that the CCP is the culprit for hiding the CCP Epidemic and spreading the epidemic in 2020.
Italian Foreign Affairs Committee President: Chinese Communist Party should respect universal values
Piero Fassino, president of the Italian Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the Democratic Party, said at the hearing that Italy recognizes that every country has its own specific cultural and religious background, but that human rights values are universal and that national governments have no right to unreasonably deprive their own people of their human and civil rights. “This is a principle that the Chinese Communist authorities should also abide by,” he said.
He also said that the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” followed by the EU is recognized by 168 countries, including the Communist Party of China, so the EU’s sanctioning of the four Xinjiang officials is not an imposition of its own values on other countries, and that the Communist Party’s retaliatory measures are unjustified.
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister: Italy Strongly Defends Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
The EU sanctioned four former or current CCP officials in Xinjiang on March 22 for enforcing the CCP’s policy of violating the human rights of the Uighurs in Xinjiang; the CCP subsequently retaliated by banning 10 individuals, including five members of the European Parliament, and four European human rights organizations from entering China.
According to the Central News Agency, Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni summoned the Chinese ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, to express her strong dissatisfaction on Wednesday 24.
Sereni expressed Italy’s support for the EU’s measures to defend the human rights of the Uighur minority in Xinjiang, as Italy strongly defends human rights and fundamental freedoms, and Italy cannot accept the CCP’s countermeasures.
She explained that freedom of expression, freedom of thought and expression are fundamental rights of human beings, the cornerstone of democratic values and part of the enlightenment movement in Italy and throughout the EU, and that the CCP’s countermeasures jeopardize the rights of the people and think tanks involved, so the Italian government will firmly support those European parliamentarians, scholars and think tanks blacklisted by the CCP.
She concluded by saying that the EU plays an important role in global affairs and that the CCP should engage in a more open and honest dialogue with the EU instead of unjustified sanctions.
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