Emmanuel Macron raised the issue of human rights with the Chinese president

Emmanuel Macron discussed the issue of human rights with Xi Jinping during the Chinese president’s state visit to France, the Elysée announced on Wednesday May 7. “The president spoke yesterday [lundi] the question of human rights, he expressed his attention in this regard and on some individual cases. We talk about it among ourselves and we check the results with a desire for efficiency”, specified the French presidency, while the two heads of state spent Tuesday in the Hautes-Pyrénées. No further details were released.

“We have to talk with everyone. But we have to talk about everything, including and especially human rights”Jean-Claude Samouiller, president of Amnesty International France, estimated on franceinfo. “We also regret a lack of firmness in declarations concerning human rights, a lack of public commitment concerning human rights.”

Before the visit of the Chinese president,The Elysée had announced that the subject of human rights would be raised, but behind closed doors. The situation of the Tibetans and that of the Uighurs arouses great emotion in France, supported in particular by the head of the socialist list in the European elections in June, Raphaël Glucksmann.