Beijing: China today (Mar 23, 2004) announced unilateral suspension of all dialogues with the United States on Human Rights and summoned the US Ambassador after Washington announced plans to table an "anti-China" motion at the ongoing session of the UN on Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

"The decision made by the US to propose such a resolution destroyed the basis of dialogue between the two sides on Human Rights. We have to put an end to the dialogues on the Human Rights issue," Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Shen Guofang told US Ambassador Clark T Randit after summoning him.

Announcing this at a regular biweekly news conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Kong Quan accused Washington of turning a blind eye to the progress made by Beijing in the sphere of Human Rights in order to cater to the domestic political needs.

"The US abruptly betrayed its commitments and turned a blind eye to the development made by China for improvement of Human Rights and proposed a draft resolution against China at the UNHRC (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)," he said adding, "Confrontation is doomed to failure."

"We do not want to see the Human Rights Conference in Geneva turn out to a venue for confrontations," he said, adding that China did not want to indulge into any confrontation.

"We are going to fight to the finish and we believe that talks will win victory over confrontation," Kong said.