Washington, April 30 -- East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) Prime Minister, Abdulahat Nur, has urged newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and his Liberal Party administration to take significant action against China's ongoing genocide and unlawful occupation of East Turkistan.

Abdulahat Nur called on the Canadian government to officially recognise and denounce the Uyghur genocide and to acknowledge East Turkistan as a territory under Chinese colonial domination, and to reaffirm its pledge to resettle at least 10,000 Uyghur refugees in Canada.

Furthermore, he urged Carney to take robust measures to facilitate the release of Canadian citizen Huseyin Celil, who remains unjustly incarcerated in China, as noted in ETGE's p...