Thank you Mr/Madame Chair, Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, My name is Farkhat Ibragimov. I am a former OHCHR Minority fellow. I belong to the Uyghur ethnic minority in Kyrgyzstan. I am going to contribute to Item 4. Open dialogue: urgent situations of minorities. Minorities around the world are often the victims of armed conflicts and internal strife. The situation of refugees and internally displaced persons from minority backgrounds, in particular women and children, is of special concern. Persons belonging to national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities are also often victims of multiple discrimination. This is specifically relevant, when gross human rights violations are committed by permanent members of the UN Security Council. Thus, the Uyghurs and other Turkic peoples in the Uyghur region are facing arbitrary detention, illtreatment and systematic ethnic and religious discrimination on an industrial scale. Furthermore, there are numerous cases of disappearances and relatives of those, who have disappeared, are not aware of their whereabouts, receiving no information from the authorities. In this context, I would like to speak about the silence of most Muslim-majority countries when it comes to the human rights situation in the Uyghur region. In particular, a failure of the recent proposal presented by the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, sought for the UN Human Rights Council to hold a formal debate on the human rights situation in Uyghur region (Xinjiang) at its 52nd session, in March 2023. This failure was - inter alia - due to the fact that Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, and other Members of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation like Qatar, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, UAE, Sudan and Pakistan opposed this proposal. Somalia was the only Muslim-majority country in the HRC to support the above-mentioned proposal. I would like to heartily thank Somalia for that. I would like to take this opportunity to cordially thank the democratic countries for continuous raising this issue. I also thank fifty countries that urged China on 1 November 2022 to fully implement all recommendations in a UN report accusing the country of possible “crimes against humanity” against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups, including taking prompt steps to release all those “arbitrarily deprived of their liberty”. Now, I would like to remind to the above-mentioned Muslim-majority countries, who voted against the proposal that the Prophet Mohammad (may Allah's peace and blessings be upon him) said: “The believers, in their mutual