Beijing: China on Friday called on the United States to remove Xinjiang’s separatist extremist organization East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) from its list of terrorist organizations. Criticizing America, he said that it shows America’s “double standards” in the fight against global terrorism.
In a major policy move on November 5, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lifted the ban on ETIM, which was declared a terrorist organization in 2002 by an anti-terrorism committee of the United Nations. Was. He was accused of having links to Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.
China has accused ETIM of being involved in several violent attacks in which several people were killed. The organization is active in the Uighur Muslim-majority Xinjiang province. In recent months, the United States has criticized China’s treatment of about 12 million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
Asked about the US move on the separatist organization ETIM, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told a media briefing here on Friday that “China condemns and rejects the US decision.” “ETIM is a terrorist organization listed by the United Nations Security Council and has been designated as such by the international community,” he said.
