China, EU highlight rights of persons with disabilities at UN Human Rights Council

Katarina Ivankovic Knezevic (L), Director for Social Affairs of European Commission, speaks at a meeting titled "Leave no one behind: the key role of the Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities," a side event to the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in Geneva, Switzerland, on Feb. 26, 2019. For the first time within the UNHRC framework, China and the European Union co-hosted the meeting on the sidelines of the ongoing UNHRC's 40th session. China attaches great importance to undertakings for persons with disabilities, and will not leave behind a single one of them while building a moderately prosperous society, a senior Chinese diplomat said at the meeting on Tuesday. (Xinhua/Xu Jinquan)