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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9944

17 July 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/china
Parliament encourages Chinese government to respect ethnic and religious rights

Brussels, 16/07/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 15 July in Strasbourg, a week after the violent and bloody riots in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang province in China, the situation in this locality found itself at the centre of the work of the European Parliament's new assembly. Although there are a lot of grey areas involved in this tragedy, for which Beijing's most recent records list 180 deaths, it should be pointed out that the riots in this autonomous region in the People's...

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