Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 18 December 2019 - Strasbourg

Situation of the Uyghur in China (China-cables) (debate)

  Anna Fotyga, on behalf of the ECR Group. – Madam President, I welcome Mr Borrell, High Representative / Vice-President, to Parliament. Despite experiments in the domain of the economy, China is still a Communist state massively intimidating large groups of its own society. Since the November 2019 leakage of the so-called China cables, the level of intimidation in the Xinjiang autonomous region is more than clear to all of us. Of course detention camps are not places of voluntary work. Of course there is massive surveillance with all technical means. We require decisive action on the part of the EU. Mr High Representative, this requires real resolve from our side. I call for a shutdown of camps, as well as targeted sanctions against those responsible for the perpetration of intimidation.