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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) - The parliament in Lithuania on Thursday became the latest to describe China s treatment of its Uyghur minority as genocide , voting to call for a U.N. investigation of internment camps and to ask the European Commission to review relations with Beijing. The Biden administration in the United States has used the term genocide to describe China s actions towards the Uyghurs, as have parliaments in countries including Britain and Canada. Beijing denies abusing minorities and has condemned countries for using the term, which it says is motivated by propaganda. The non-binding resolution, supported by three fifths of Lithuanian parliament members, also called on China to abolish a national security law in Hong Kong, and to let observers into Tibet and begin talks with its spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. Neither Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte nor Foreign Minsiter Gabrielius Landsbergis participated in the vote, despite being present in the parliament.
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