聯合國員工爆中國行賄 要求機構資金排除台灣邦交國 中央社 20240419
英國國會取得的書面證詞顯示，中國對聯合國官員行賄以獲「特殊優惠」，且在中國的要求下，與台灣有外交關係的國家，無法獲得某些聯合國的資金。
英國國會下議院外交委員會（Foreign Affairs
Committee）公布其在多邊體系下之國際關係調查當中獲得的書面證詞。
在書面證詞中，聯合國人權事務高級專員公署（Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHR ）員工、吹哨者芮里（Emma Reilly）聲稱，OHCHR正提供「危險的好處」給中國，且「這些好處，是中國政府大規模利用聯合國為其國家利益服務的一部分」。她的證詞聲稱「聯合國掩飾了其給中國的特殊優惠」。
芮里聲稱，「在為期兩年的永續發展目標（Sustainable
Development Goals, SDGs）談判期間，北京方面對監督談判進行、且對最終文本具重大影響力的聯合國大會（General Assembly）連續兩屆主席行賄」。她聲稱，中國「對聯合國機構開出一項秘密條件，即該國提供的資金，不得使用於與台灣有外交關係的國家」。
她的書面證詞，包括指控「OHCHR人權理事會辦公室一名法國籍負責人，事先把計畫要參與人權理事會會議的人權人士之資訊，秘密地提供給中國。」證詞提到「聯合國各級官員以政策為由，刻意對包括英國代表團在內的成員國撒謊，在這些成員國不知情，或未經他們同意的情況下，把包括英國公民和居民在內各國民眾的姓名提供給中國。」
她的證詞稱，「在聯合國秘書處事先把非政府組織代表名單提供給中國的情況下，代表們通報說，有中國警察探訪其家人，他們被迫打電話給這些代表，要求代表們不要再宣揚其理念，也有人被捕，或在會議期間遭軟禁、失蹤、無故遭判長期監禁、遭受酷刑等情況發生，甚至有維吾爾人被關進集中營。」
她聲稱，「在某些情況下，他們的家人會在被拘留的期間喪命。至少有1個案例，是1個在中國名單上的人，只因參加了一次場邊活動，就在回到中國後遭拘留，並在被關的期間死亡。」她指出，「至少在1個案例中，中國政府通過國際刑警組織（Interpol）針對1名非政府組織代表發布紅色通緝令。」
芮里提到，「（聯合國）秘書長也做了自我審查，…他表示，有關我的案子，任何解決方案都是『有困難的』；這顯示了我的報告所示，那些是給中國的好處」。
證詞當中也包括聲稱「世界衛生組織（WHO）和聯合國環境規劃署（UNEP）針對COVID-19（2019冠狀病毒疾病）起源的報告經過編輯，以減少提及病毒是由實驗室外洩的可能性。」
證詞還包括英國「外交、國協及發展部」（Foreign, Commonwealth
& Development Office, FCDO）提交的資料。FCDO的證詞顯示，中國正努力「塑造多邊體系，使其更加符合以國家為中心的威權世界觀。」至於俄羅斯，FCDO表示，俄羅斯「在整個多邊體系中，主要扮演破壞者的角色」。在討論孤立國家參與多邊體系時，FCDO稱，「伊朗利用其在聯合國國際原子能總署（International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA）中的地位，來破壞和阻止其遵守法律義務，並經常參與多邊選舉。 」
在4月16日下午2時，下議院外交委員會針對本調查首次舉行檢視證詞的會議，聽取吹哨者芮里和包括馬洛克-布朗（Lord Malloch-Brown）在內的其他專家證人的證詞。
外交委員會得出的結論是，獨裁的國家正試圖積極地拉攏具有重要戰略意義的多邊組織，並從根本上重新定義其創始的原則。
Written evidence:
whistleblower allegations of “UN cover-up of its special favours to the PRC” UK Parliament 20240416
The Foreign Affairs Committee publishes written
evidence received as part of its inquiry
into international relations in the multilateral system.
In the evidence, a former employee of the Office of the High Commissioner
for Human Rights (OHCHR) and whistleblower Emma Reilly alleges that “dangerous ‘favours’” are “being
rendered by OHCHR to the Chinese government” and “these favours fall into a broader effort of the Chinese government
to instrumentalise the UN to serve its national interests”. Her evidence
alleges a “UN cover-up of special favours for the PRC”.
Her written evidence includes allegations that “the Chief of the Human Rights
Council Branch in OHCHR, a French national, was secretly providing the PRC with
advance information on which human rights activists planned to attend the Human
Rights Council”. It alleges that “UN officials at all levels deliberately lied to
member states, including the U.K. delegation, who enquired about the UN policy of
handing names – including of U.K. citizens and residents – to the PRC without their
knowledge or consent”.
Her evidence alleges that “in cases where the PRC was provided with names
of NGO delegates in advance by the UN Secretariat, the delegates have reported that
family members were visited by Chinese police, forced to phone them to tell them
to stop their advocacy, arbitrarily arrested, placed under house arrest for the
period of the meeting, disappeared, sentenced to long prison terms without cause,
tortured, or, as regards Uyghurs, put in concentration camps”. She alleges that
“in some cases, their family members died in detention. In at least one case, a
person named on the PRC’s list, who attended only a side event, later returned to
China and died in detention”. She alleges that “in at least one case, the Chinese
government issued an Interpol red notice against an NGO delegate”.
The evidence includes allegations that “reports of both the WHO and [United
Nations Environment Programme] UNEP on the origins of covid were edited to reduce
references to the possibility of a laboratory leak”.
The evidence also includes a submission from the Foreign, Commonwealth and
Development Office (FCDO). The FCDO’s evidence says that China is working to “shape
the multilateral system to align more with a state-centric, authoritarian world
view”. On Russia, the FCDO says that Russia “plays a mostly disruptive role across
the multilateral system”. Discussing the engagement of isolated countries with the
multilateral system, the FCDO says that “Iran uses its position within the International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to disrupt and push back against complying with its
legal obligations, and often runs in multilateral elections”.
Organisations such as the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, China
Strategic Risks Institute, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, Hong Kong Watch, the Foreign
Policy Centre and the Council on Geostrategy have submitted evidence, as well as
individual experts and academics, such as
At 14.00 today (16 April) the Foreign Affairs Committee holds its first
evidence session in this inquiry, hearing from whistleblower
The Committee’s inquiry into international relations in the multilateral system
looks at how a broad range of countries are using multilateral organisations, be
that through engaging and influencing, working around them or obstruction. It follows
on from the Committee’s report “In the room: the UK’s role in multilateral diplomacy”
which concluded that autocratic states were attempting to aggressively co-opt strategically
important multilateral organisations and to fundamentally redefine their founding
principles.
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