Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Beijing, June 24: Zhang Jun, the Chinese assistant minister of foreign affairs, has on Monday said Beijing will not permit the Hong Kong issue to be discussed at the Group of 20 nations (G20) summit scheduled to be held this week in Osaka, Japan.

According to Reuters news reports, millions of people have demonstrated on the streets of Hong Kong demanding the controversial extradition bill to be fully withdrawn which permits suspects in the territory to be sent to mainland China for court trial and prosecution.

Asked whether United States President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping would discuss the Hong Kong issue at the G20 summit, Zhang said, “What I can tell you for sure is that G20 will not discuss the Hong Kong issue. We will not allow G20 to discuss the Hong Kong issue.”

The minister added saying Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China and its matter or issues are purely an internal affair due China, adding, “No foreign country has a right to interfere.”

He added no matter at what venue, using any method, we will not permit any nation to interfere in the internal affairs of China.

Tens of hundreds of protesters dispersed after blocking police headquarters in the Asian leading financial centre on Saturday morning after demonstrating for straight 15 hours demanding the complete withdrawal of the proposed controversial extradition bill.

The 15 hour-long demonstrations in Wan Chai at the Arsenal Street police base over at around 2:40 am after protesters blocked all entries to the headquarters.

Friday’s protest largely turned into anger demonstration on the police forces, who have been accused by protesters of using undue forces in clashes with the marchers over a week ago.

Demonstrations kicked off at around 7 am (23G on Thursday) around the Legislative Council Complex. People were asked to renew their demonstrations after a protest Thursday deadline for Lam-led government to respond to protest demand to withdraw the extradition immediately.

They also demanded the government to drop the charges leveled against the detained marchers during the last week’s demonstration, and charge the security forces what they called as violent actions, and also stop calling them riot.

 

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