ACT Party foreign affairs spokeswoman Brooke van Velden. Supplied / George NovakThe Act Party today plans to ask Parliament to debate a motion to declare China's oppression of the Uighur ethnic minority an act of "genocide". Act Party deputy foreign affairs spokeswoman Brooke van Velden said the party would file the motion with Parliament's Office of the clerk and the Speaker on Wednesday. "There are two reasons the Act Party are bringing this debatable motion to parliament," she told the Herald. "If the Labour Party will not put forward its own motion then the Act party will," van Velden said.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 27, 2021 19:07 UTC