GENEVA, May 29 — Efforts by Switzerland to refresh its free trade agreement with China have stalled as Bern takes a more critical view of Beijing's human rights record, Swiss newspapers reported today.
Switzerland has been trying to update the accord to extend tariff reductions to more Swiss products and to expand the agreement to include sustainability features. However, Beijing is not engaging, the newspapers said. China's foreign ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside working hours on Sunday.
A Swiss parliamentary initiative recently passed by the National Council's Legal Affairs Committee denounced forced labour of Uyghurs in northwest China as"a real problem".
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