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		</div><p>China cannot co-operate with the UN human rights office after it released a report criticising Beijing’s policies against Uighurs and other ethnic groups in western Xinjiang, a top Chinese diplomat has said.</p>
<p>However, Chen Xu, China’s ambassador to UN institutions in Geneva, distinguished between not working with the human rights office and co-operating with the world body overall.</p>
<p>Mr Chen said the report issued last week – which said some rights violations under China’s anti-terrorism policies could amount to crimes against humanity – offered up “groundless blame” of China’s policies and practices.</p>
<p>“We cannot, on the one hand, conduct co-operation with the office, while at the same time it issued such a kind of assessment,” Mr Chen told UN Geneva press association ACANU.</p>
<p>China believes the report “constitutes a threat” and cannot “conduct co-operation as if nothing happened”, he said.</p>
<p>In the waning minutes of her last day in office on August 31, the office of Michelle Bachelet, then UN high commissioner for human rights, issued a report accusing China of serious human rights violations against Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups.</p>
<p>It called on the world community to give “urgent attention” to the situation in Xinjiang.</p>
<p>Human rights groups have accused China of sweeping a million or more people from the minority groups into detention camps where many have said they were tortured, sexually assaulted, and forced to abandon their language and religion.</p>
<p>China has repeatedly said the “assessment” was a fabrication cooked up by western nations.</p>
<p>Mr Chen said China – one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – will continue to work with the United Nations overall, calling the world body the “core” of international relations.</p>
<p>“We will continue the co-operation. But as I said, the office cannot represent the United Nations by delivering such an assessment, in such a nature,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr Chen also said China would take an “active part” in activities of the UN-backed Human Rights Council in its upcoming four-week session starting on Monday.</p>
<p>The council works closely with the UN human rights office, which falls under the office of UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres.</p>
<p>On Thursday, the UN General Assembly chose Austria’s Volker Turk as Ms Bachelet’s successor.</p>
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