SYDNEY, December 8. / TASS /. Australia will join the United States’ announced diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and officials will not participate in Games-related events. This was announced on Wednesday by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
“Australian officials will not participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics,” the Prime Minister said at a press conference in Sydney, noting that the country’s Olympic team will participate in the Games as previously scheduled. “Australia is a great sporting power and we share sporting and political issues,” he said.
Morrison said the decision to refrain from official representation at the Beijing Olympics was taken due to human rights violations attributed to China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and “a number of others. problems related to Chinese interference in Australian affairs. ” “We would be very happy to discuss these issues with the Chinese government and <...> we have tried several times to do it, but the Chinese authorities have systematically ignored any opportunity to do so, ”the head of government said.
On December 6, the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, implying an official refusal to attend the Games. Washington later informed its allies and partners overseas, leaving them the right to independently make decisions about attending or not attending events in China on the occasion of the Olympics. Calls for a boycott of the Winter Games, which had previously been launched by politicians from Canada, Norway, the United States, as well as representatives of nearly 200 human rights organizations from different countries, were the massive repressions attributed by the PRC to Xinjiang. Uighur Autonomous Region. China responded by calling the US decision political manipulation, contrary to the Olympic Charter, and pledged to take countermeasures.
The XXIV Olympic Winter Games will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20, 2022. The capital of the PRC has been chosen to host the session of the International Olympic Committee in Kuala Lumpur on July 31, 2015.
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