China seeks Indian support to foil U.S bid on rights vote

BEIJING, APRIL, 5. China has sought India's support to foil U.S attempts to censure the Communist regime's human rights policies, diplomatic sources said here.

China has the support against the resolution tabled by the U.S at the ongoing session of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, a diplomatic source told PTI. The Director-General of the Asian Department of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Mr. Zhang Jiuhuan, on Tuesday met the Indian Ambassador Mr. Vijay K. Nambiar and briefed him on Beijing's stand on human rights, seeking New Delhi's support to defeat the anti-China motion later this month, the source said.

Sources in the Indian Embassy confirmed the meeting and said the message would be relayed to New Delhi.

They noted that India had been voting against similar motions against China at the rights forum in Geneva.

With the help of developing countries, China has defeated every Western attempt to censure it since the 1989 Tiananmen square massacre here, in which many pro-democracy activists reportedly died.

However, analysts say Washington looked upbeat about the prospects for putting China in the Commission's dock this year due to a change in the 53-member Commission's membership structure.

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