Qatar Withdraws Support for China Over Its Treatment of Muslims

By artappraiser on Wed, 08/21/2019 - 12:52am |

Persian Gulf nation tells UN it wants to remain ‘neutral’
37 countries had signed letter backing China against censure

By Zainab Fattha @ Bloomberg.com, Aug. 20

Qatar withdrew its signature from a letter signed by dozens of countries in support of China’s human-rights record despite international condemnation over its detention of as many as two million ethnic Muslim Uighurs.

Qatar informed United Nations Human Rights Council President Coly Seck of its decision to withdraw from the July 12 letter, which was signed by mostly majority-Muslim nations, according to a copy of the correspondence seen by Bloomberg. Several calls and e-mails to Qatar’s government communications office and the UN mission weren’t returned [....]

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-21/qatar-withdraws-support-for-china-over-its-treatment-of-muslims