Speaker Pelosi calls for diplomatic boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics by world leaders
DHARAMSALA 19 May: The Speaker of the US House of Representatives has called for a global diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on human rights grounds.
“Let’s not honour the Chinese government by having heads of state go to China,” the US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said at a bipartisan congressional hearing on Tuesday.
“For heads of state to go to China in light of a genocide that is ongoing – while you’re sitting there in your seat – really begs the question, what moral authority do you have to speak again about human rights any place in the world?” she added.
The octogenarian Speaker’s remarks came amid a growing call for a full-scale boycott of the games in Beijing by rights groups across the world.
The Games are scheduled to begin on 4 Feb next year, but calls to boycott it continues to get steam.
The Tibetan parliament in exile unanimously approved a resolution at its 10th session on the 18th of March calling on the Tibetan cabinet, the parliament as well as all governmental and non-governmental Tibetan entities to launch a worldwide campaign of protests against the Beijing Olympics.