China says "lie is still lying" in a UN confrontation over Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region

Dozens of countries continued to put pressure on China at the United Nations on Thursday over charges of infringement of rights against Uighur Muslims and other minorities in the country's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, causing an angry reaction from China's UN envoy. Conflicts over the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region between China and most Western countries, including the United States, occur regularly at both the UN General Assembly in New York and the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. In a statement by France's UN Ambassador to the United Nations Nicholas de Riviere, who read part of it to the General…