China will continue to work with the UN human rights organ with an "open" and "frank" attitude, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang in Beijing Tuesday.

"China hopes that the special rapporteur on torture would write a just and objective report on what he has learned during his trip," Qin told a regular press conference.

At the invitation of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Manfred Novak, a special rapporteur on torture of the UN Human Rights Commission paid a visit to China from Nov. 21 to Dec. 2., the first ever for a special rapporteur on torture of the UN Human Rights Commission.

The schedule of the visit has been made by the Chinese side and the special rapporteur himself in the spirit of mutual respect, trust and understanding, Qin said, noting that the schedule had been rearranged several times according to the special rapporteur's requirements.

The rapporteur visited Beijing, Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, respectively.

During his stay in Beijing, Novak held talks with officials of China's ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice and Public Security, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, acquainting himself with China's practice of reducing and eliminating torture, and its implementation of the Convention Against Torture.

In Lhasa and Urumqi, local officials let him know how the two regions do in reducing and eliminating torture, protect the rights of people in custody, and answered questions of the rapporteur, according to Qin.

The repporteur also met people from nongovernmental organizations, institutes, lawyers and press circles. He visited prisons, detention centers and reeducation centers and talked to detainees.

The rapporteur on torture is a special procedure under the UN Commission on Human Rights, Qin said, adding China valued the trip and had comprehensive exchanges of views with the rapporteur.

"The two sides promoted mutual understanding and created a condition for future cooperation," the spokesman said.

Source: Xinhua