Q： The European Parliament allowed
the East Turkistan National Conference to hold a seminar on
its premises on 17 October. What is your
comment?
A： In disregard of
the repeated solemn representations of the Chinese side, the
European Parliament allowed some East Turkistan activists to
hold a seminar on East Turkistan in its building. We wish to
express our strong indignation and dissatisfaction towards
this act of providing venue for anti-China activities.
The force for East Turkistan is a terrorist
force with the objective of splitting China. It has closely
colluded with the international terrorist organizations to
undertake numerous horrible violent terrorist acts in China
and its neighboring countries, leading to great casualties.
Under the backdrop of increased international cooperation
against terrorism, the force for East Turkistan is trying to
disguise itself under the pretext of human rights, democracy
and safeguarding the minoritys rights to carry on its
splittist activities. However, these tactical changes can
not change its nature as a terrorist organization. The
so-called seminar on East Turkistan is nothing but a
farce.
It runs against the international trend
for enhanced anti-terrorist cooperation for the European
Parliament to bent on providing a forum for such a terrorist
organization. Undoubtedly, it will seriously undermine the
image of the European Parliament in the hearts of the
Chinese people. It will hurt the feelings of the Chinese
people. Furthermore, it will damage the development of
Sino-European relations. We call on the European side to
earnestly follow the spirit of international cooperation
against terrorism, adopt effective measures to put an end to
the activities of the East Turkistan terrorist organizations
in the EU countries, so as to enable the healthy and smooth
development of Sino-European relations.