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The importance of multilateral co-operation for strengthening democratic principles and values, including through firm and prompt sanctions for slippages, was highlighted by Romania s Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu, who on Tuesday opened the 33rd meeting of the Governing Council of the Community of Democracies (CoD) by videoconference, as part of the duties of the Romanian Presidency of CoD.
The Romanian Foreign Ministry (MAE) says in a press statement released on Tuesday that also addressing the opening meeting were CoD Secretary General Thomas Garrett and Parliamentary Secretary of the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Robert Oliphant, agerpres.ro confirms.
MPs Pass Motion Declaring China’s Uyghur Persecution a Genocide
Most MPs have voted in favour of declaring Beijing’s oppression of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in China a genocide.
In the House of Commons on Monday, a majority of MPs voted in favour of the motion, which was tabled last week by the Conservatives to officially recognize that the Chinese Communist Party’s campaign against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities constitutes a genocide.
In a 266-0 vote, the Tories garnered the support of the Bloc Quebecois, the NDP, the Green Party, and non-cabinet Liberal MPs to press the federal government to label the CCP’s treatment of the Uyghurs a genocide.