At the meeting, Britain's UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward called the situation in Xinjiang "one of the worst human rights crises of our time". Heusgen appealed to China to respect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights "and tear down the detention camps". "If you have nothing to hide, why don't you finally grant unimpeded access to the (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights?" He then showed a short video and said: "The truth is, it's not about human rights in Xinjiang, it's about using Xinjiang as a political tool to contain China. But I have a similar global mandate to defend human rights and I couldn't think of anything more important to do than to join you here today.

Source: New Zealand Herald May 13, 2021 04:30 UTC