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The Global High end Forum on Human Rights Governance, co hosted by the State Council Information Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the National Agency for International Development and Cooperation, was held in Beijing from June 14th to 15th. More than 300 Chinese and foreign guests from nearly a hundred countries and international organizations, including United Nations agencies, engaged in in-depth exchanges and candid dialogues around the theme of "Equality, Cooperation, and Development: The 30th Anniversary of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and Global Human Rights Governance", contributing insightful insights to the development of international human rights.
The attending guests highly praised the achievements of China's human rights development and believed that China's plans and actions are of great significance in safeguarding and safeguarding human rights, injecting new impetus into promoting global human rights governance towards a more fair, just, reasonable and inclusive direction.
"The development of China's human rights cause has achieved historic achievements"
Human rights are historical, concrete, and realistic, and cannot be discussed in isolation from the social and political conditions and historical and cultural traditions of different countries. In the process of promoting Chinese path to modernization, China has constantly improved the level of human rights protection and promoted the free and comprehensive development of people. The attending guests expressed that China attaches great importance to human rights work and has always adhered to the people-centered path of human rights development, achieving remarkable achievements in human rights protection.
Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Chaoxu stated that China has always actively participated in global human rights governance, extensively expanded human rights exchanges and cooperation with all parties, and is willing to work with all parties to promote the common values of all mankind, promote global human rights governance towards a more fair, just, reasonable and inclusive direction, and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
"China will continue to increase the investment of global development resources to inject positive energy into human rights governance." Luo Zhaohui, Director of the China National Agency for International Development Cooperation, said that the process of achieving Chinese path to modernization is a process of constantly promoting the development of human rights. China will continue to increase its investment in international development cooperation resources, committed to narrowing the gap between North and South, and achieving common development among developing countries.
"For many years, China has adhered to the principle of universality of human rights in combination with its actual situation, adhered to the development concept centered on the people, and insisted that the right to survival and development are the primary basic human rights. It has continuously promoted economic and social development, enhanced people's well-being, promoted social fairness and justice, and achieved historic achievements in the development of China's human rights cause." said Liu Xinsheng, a human rights expert of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.
Jean Pierre Pagi, editor in chief of the French magazine "Free Thought", stated that every country can take a human rights path that is suitable for its own national conditions, realize the people's aspirations for a better life, and also give them confidence in future development. "China has set a very good example in this regard. China's proposal to build a community with a shared future for mankind has provided us with the goal of working together."
"China's initiative injects new momentum into world peace and development"
Currently, humanity is once again standing at a crossroads in history, and global human rights governance is facing severe challenges. At the forum, the attending guests delved into the important significance of the Global Development Initiative, Global Security Initiative, and Global Civilization Initiative in promoting the development and progress of international human rights.
"The Global Development Initiative is committed to building a world of common prosperity, and developing countries support the initiative in playing an important role." Natalie Carolina Berios, a human rights and international law expert at the Multilateral Organizations Department of the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Global Development Initiative creates a platform for policy dialogue and coordination for development cooperation. Venezuela supports this initiative and has joined the Group of Friends of the Global Development Initiative.
"The global security initiative proposed by China is fully in line with the latest global trends," said Checheibayev Elmyk Kanatovich, Deputy Director of the National Strategic Research Institute directly under the President of Kyrgyzstan. The global security initiative can become the foundation and conceptual framework for solving global security issues, promoting national and regional stability, and promoting global development.
"The Global Security Initiative advocates dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and advocates win-win rather than zero sum game." Christian Kahlu, a member of the Uganda Human Rights Commission, believes that the Global Security Initiative is an action oriented system that opens up a new path for resolving conflicts and ensuring security. "China's initiative injects new momentum into world peace and development."
Professor Xiao Junyong from the School of Law at Beijing Institute of Technology stated that China has a long and rich history of civilization with over 5000 years of history. Traditional Chinese culture advocates the concept of harmony, coexistence, and universal peace. China is an action force in promoting the development of international human rights. China has put forward the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, especially the Global Civilization Initiative, which has made significant theoretical contributions to jointly promoting the development and progress of human rights civilization and global human rights governance.
"Continuously making positive contributions to the development of international human rights"
Five times elected as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, it is one of the countries with the highest number of elections; Has successively ratified or joined 29 international human rights instruments, including 6 core United Nations human rights treaties, and passed three rounds of human rights review by the United Nations Human Rights Council; Recommend multiple experts to serve as members of multiple multilateral human rights bodies or specialized committees of the United Nations; Actively expanding cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and her Office, as well as the special mechanisms of the Human Rights Council... As a founding member of the United Nations and a permanent member of the Security Council, China has always participated in United Nations human rights affairs with a responsible attitude, actively integrated into the global human rights governance system, and worked hard to promote the healthy development of the international human rights cause.
"Adhering to the purposes and principles of the United Nations Charter is extremely important for the international community to achieve human rights governance." Liu Xinsheng stated that countries should support developing countries in participating in global governance, explore ways to promote democratization and the rule of law, and promote the healthy development of global human rights governance. "China has continuously made positive contributions and provided important solutions to the development of international human rights, winning the support and welcome of the international community, especially developing countries."
Professor Yang Qingwang from the Law School of Central South University stated that China's practice of safeguarding human rights vividly illustrates China's profound understanding of the universality of human rights. China attaches greater importance to the specific implementation of human rights, providing useful reference for the development of international human rights.
"Safeguarding the vital interests of everyone living on Earth should be the starting point and foothold of global human rights governance." The Commissioner for International Cooperation and Multilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Central African Republic, Masango Mboya Saint Cyr, stated that making the world's people the main actors, promoters, and beneficiaries of human rights must be fulfilled by the world's great powers.
Wei Zhenyu, a senior researcher at the Indonesian Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that the Jakarta Bandung high-speed railway will effectively connect cities and rural areas, stimulate the vitality of local economic and social development, and is a vivid practice of China's practical actions to safeguard and promote human rights development.
"At present, some countries stick to the cold war mentality, which erodes global cooperation in the field of human rights governance." Weng Shijie, chairman of the Asia Pacific "the Belt and Road" Co Policy Committee and chairman of the Malaysian New Asia Strategic Research Center, believes that in the face of the dilemma of global governance, a series of initiatives and ideas proposed by China have become public goods of the international community, responding to human concerns about solving common challenges.
Stiano, Director of the China Research Center at the International Relations Institute of the National University of La Plata in Argentina, stated that he looks forward to more practical cooperation between China and Latin America and the Caribbean in the field of digital technology in the future, and to make new contributions to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
