Hu added that all separatist forces are doomed to failure, and said the central government would support social and ethnic development, CCTV reported.
Economic liberalization plans have inevitably run up against entrenched racial preferences, for instance in the property development market, where ethnic Malays still command discounts, and in higher education, which continues to operate on a quota system.
Even the reforming president warned that such ethnic and communal violence could damage democratisation and development in the whole country.
For both the Uighurs and the Tibetans, economic development has been inseparable from immigration by ethnic-Han Chinese, 92% of China's population.
The delegation included experts on labor rights and economic development, rule of law and political reform, ethnic conflict and reconciliation, land-mine removal, and criminal justice.
The composition of our ethnic population and also the difficulties presented by our geographical terrain make communication and development difficult.
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Yet if the world has learned anything from our dubious economic development attempts in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is that excluding key ethnic stakeholders from a political process heightens conflict and undercuts reform.
The new, non-statutory, body is provisionally called the police, crime and response development forum and would be made up of representatives from business organisations, charities, ethnic minority and young people's groups and other "watch" groups such as Pubwatch.
In his principal address, Professor Devetak said that problems of co-operation and development in the Mediterranean are intermingled with religious fundamentalism and cultural misperceptions: "ethnic or religious connotation is given to problems that have nothing to do with ethnicity or religion".
These four principles illustrate that the concept of sustainable development in the Earth Charter embraces the view that the problems of poverty, environmental degradation, ethnic and religious conflict, and social injustice are all interdependent, and that policies that address one problem can impact and improve other issues.
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