Chair, 

Today's world is marked by changes and turmoils. As the international human rights cause faces a multitude of challenges, the international community should uphold the vision of a community of shared future for mankind and take targeted actions. 

For people caught in wars and conflicts, the right to survival is the greatest human right. The international community should safeguard human rights through security, and make every effort to promote a ceasefire and an end to the fighting in conflict areas as soon as possible. We firmly oppose the hegemonic acts of a few Western countries, who are fanning the flames to escalate and spread the conflicts.

For people living in poverty, the right to development is the greatest human right. The international community should promote human rights through development, and make every effort to put the 2030 Agenda back on track. We firmly oppose the hegemonic acts of a few Western countries, such as unilateral sanctions, decoupling, and severing chains, which deprive developing countries of their basic human rights.

For developing countries, human rights are practical and feasible when they are in line with their own national conditions. Political manipulation and double standards are the biggest "tumor" in the international human rights cause, and we firmly oppose the hegemonic acts of a few Western countries that instrumentalize and weaponize human rights.

Chair, 

In the past 75 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, we have charted a path of human rights development that suits China's national conditions, one that is embraced by the people and conforms to the trend of the time. China's human rights achievements are widely recognized around the world. 

We have made people's well-being the greatest human right. We have eradicated absolute poverty once and for all, and continuously developed the whole process people's democracy along the way. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee unveiled more than 300 important reform measures, which will unite and lead all Chinese people to embark on a new journey in human rights development. 

We have continued to offer new opportunities for the rest of the world through our own development, and have provided development assistance to more than 160 countries. Over the past decade, the Belt and Road Initiative has created 420,000 jobs in partner countries, and has become a road of happiness for the promotion of human rights and the realization of a better life. 

We have contributed to the global human rights governance through practical actions. Since the very beginning, we have called for respecting the independent choice of human rights development by the people of each country, advocated human rights cooperation among all countries on the basis of equality and mutual respect, and stood up for developing countries that have been victims of power politics and hegemony, thus vigorously promoting the healthy and orderly development of global human rights governance. 

Chair, 

A moment ago, Australia and the US, among others, resorted again to lies to provoke confrontations, which China firmly opposes and totally rejects. 

It is clear to the whole world that China's Xinjiang and Xizang have remained stable and prosperous, where all ethnic groups live together in harmony. The so-called assessment report on Xinjiang is fraught with lies and deception. It is purely a product of coercion of OHCHR by the United States and a few others. This report was long ago rejected by the Human Rights Council, and is totally illegal and invalid. The fact that Australia and the US, among a few others, attempted a totally different narrative on this matter is nothing short of a manifestation of their own helplessness and desperation, being unwilling to accept their own defeat. 

The human rights situation that should gather the most attention at the Committee this year is undoubtedly that of Gaza. Australia and the US, among a few others, played down this living hell, while unleashing attacks and smears against the peaceful and tranquil Xinjiang. They are reaching new lows in the practice of double standards in front of the whole world. This revealed, once again, the true intentions of Australia and the US to use human rights as a pretext to interfere in China's internal affairs and curb its development, and to broadly suppress developing countries that adhere to an independent and autonomous foreign policy. 

If the death of more than 40,000 civilians in Gaza and the starvation and the displacement of millions of women and children are not enough to awake the conscience of a few Western countries including Australia and the US, and not enough for them to stop sending weapons and ammunition that have claimed the lives of countless Palestinian civilians, then their so-called protection of human rights of Muslims is nothing but the biggest lie. Fortunately, the vast number of member states have clear eyes. Just now, 80 countries, including a large number of Muslim countries, issued a joint statement in support of China, clearly opposing the interference in the internal affairs of other countries through human rights issues. And this fully shows that the hypocrisy of Australia, the US, and a few others in politicizing the weaponizing human rights issues has long been recognized as such, that the plot of using Xinjiang to contain China has long gone bankrupt, and that the sinister intention of using China to stir up confrontations has completely failed. 

Thank you, Chair.