Nation has open attitude to UN human rights review

The Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the Chinese government attaches great importance to the United Nations Human Rights Council's latest review of its human rights record and will participate in the review with an open and candid attitude.

"We hope all parties in their participation in the review will follow the Universal Periodic Review mechanism's principles of being constructive and non-politicized," ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said at a regular news briefing in Beijing.

The UPR, a unique mechanism of the UN Human Rights Council, calls for each UN member state to undergo a peer review of its human rights record every four-and-a-half years. China is one of the 14 states to be reviewed by the UPR work group between Monday and Feb 2.