Indonesia will never meddle in Xinjian riot :envoy

Firemen put out a fire in Dawannanlu Street in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (7/5). (ANTARA/REUTERS/Xinhua/Shen Qiao/*)

 Beijing (ANTARA News) - Indonesia, the world`s largest Muslim country, will never interfere in the violence in Urumqi, capital of China`s Xinjiang region, where Muslims make up the majority group, a diplomat said.

"What happened in Xinjiang is China`s internal affair. We respect China`s sovereignty over the region and will never meddle in the problem," Indonesian Ambassador to China Sudrajat said here on Sunday.

Sudrajat said he believed China would be able to deal with the unrest based on its law and thus, social life there would soon return to normal.
Indonesia had always stuck to its principle of non-intereference in China`s internal affairs, be it separatism in Xinjiang, Tibet or Taiwan, he said.

"We are consistent in not interfering in any problem happening in China. We respect China as a sovereign state," he said.

Likewise, China also had never meddled in separatist movements in several parts of Indonesia, he said.

"The two countries have agreed to respect each other`s sovereignty and refrain from interefering in each other`s internal affairs," he said.

He said Indonesia had always supported the Chinese government`s policy to deal with any separatist problem properly.

Muslim Uighurs rioted last Sunday in Urumqi.

Xinjiang`s eight million Uighurs make up nearly half the population of the region, a vast area of deserts and mountains rich in natural resources that borders ex-Soviet Central Asia.

The official Xinhua news agency quoting the regional government reported on Saturday the death toll from violence in Urumqi had risen to.

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