China's permanent representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Chen Xu, said in an interview that multilateral human rights mechanisms should serve as a platform for cooperation and dialogue rather than a venue for division and confrontation. Chen said that all parties should promote multilateralism in the field of human rights, uphold the principles of universality, impartiality, objectivity, non-selectivity and non-politicization, and jointly promote the development of the international human rights cause.