China’s foreign minister on Sunday sought international support for Beijing’s fight against a separatist movement in the restive Xinjiang region and backed calls for a united global front against terrorism after deadly attacks last week in Paris.

Speaking at the G-20 summit in Turkey, Wang Yi renewed Beijing’s longstanding criticism of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group it blames for waging a violent separatist campaign in Xinjiang and, increasingly, beyond. The Chinese border region is home to the Turkic-speaking and mainly Muslim Uighur ethnic group.

“China is also a victim of terrorism,” the official Xinhua News Agency on Monday quoted Mr. Wang as saying at a luncheon with fellow foreign ministers. “Cracking down on the ‘East Turkestan’ terrorist forces, as represented by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, should become an important component of international counterterrorism.”

Beijing has long accused the ETIM of perpetrating terrorist attacks in China and having links to foreign terrorist organizations including al Qaeda. While the United Nations and the U.S. have designated ETIM as a terrorist group, some security experts doubt that the movement is as cohesive and organized as Beijing alleges.

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