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FILE PHOTO: A worker adjusts British and China (R) national flags on display for a signing ceremony at the seventh UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue “Roundtable on Public-Private Partnerships” at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing September 21, 2015. REUTERS\/Andy Wong\/Pool<\/figcaption>

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain\u2019s parliament called on Wednesday for the government to take action to end what lawmakers described as genocide in China\u2019s Xinjiang region, stepping up pressure on ministers to go further in their criticism of Beijing.<\/p>\n

But Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u2019s government again steered clear of declaring genocide over what it says are \u201cindustrial-scale\u201d human rights abuses against the mainly Muslim Uighur community in Xinjiang. Ministers say any decision on declaring a genocide is up to the courts.<\/p>\n

So far the government has imposed sanctions on some Chinese officials and introduced rules to try to prevent goods linked to the region entering the supply chain, but a majority of lawmakers want ministers to go further.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers backed a motion brought by Conservative MP Nusrat Ghani stating Uighurs in Xinjiang were suffering crimes against humanity and genocide, and calling on government to use international law to bring it to an end.<\/p>\n

The support for the motion is non-binding, meaning it is up to the government to decide what action, if any, to take next.<\/p>\n

The Chinese embassy in the UK condemned the parliament\u2019s move, calling on Britain to take concrete steps to respect China\u2019s core interests and \u201cimmediately right its wrong moves\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe unwarranted accusation by a handful of British MPs that there is \u2018genocide\u2019 in Xinjiang is the most preposterous lie of the century, an outrageous insult and affront to the Chinese people, and a gross breach of international law and the basic norms governing international relations,\u201d the embassy said in a statement dated Friday.<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s minister for Asia, Nigel Adams, again set out to parliament the government\u2019s position that any decision on describing the human rights abuses in Xinjiang as genocide would have to be taken by \u201ccompetent\u201d courts.<\/p>\n

Some lawmakers fear Britain risks falling out of step with allies over China after the Biden administration endorsed a determination by its predecessor that China had committed genocide in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

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