In March 2004, during the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva, something strange took place at the UN that caused other delegates grave concern. A non-governmental organisation from China, dubbed “United Nations Association of China” (UNAC), was allowed to participate in the UN consultations and its representatives walked freely in and out of the UN Human Rights Conference. When attending the seminars held by the NGO, other participants condemned the unorthodox acts of this Chinese organisation’s representatives in the question and answer session.

NGOs that participate in UN Human Rights Conferences are organisations aiming to promote human rights or those monitoring governments’ acts, but this did not seem to be the case with UNAC.

During the question and answer session of a seminar on China’s persecution of Falun Gong organised by International Education Development, two representatives of UNAC made the claim that Falun Gong does not allow its practitioners to take medicine. The IED representative presiding over the seminar stated in reply, “Whether it is good or bad to choose Falun Gong as a way to keep fit, or which practice an individual chooses for keeping fit, is one’s personal choice. It is not a matter we should talk about here. What we are supposed to talk about in this conference is the persecution that Falun Gong has suffered.”

The action UNAC took to instigate hatred against Falun Gong was as if China’s Central Television Station had been relocated to the United Nations. It is hard for people to imagine the objective of this NGO.
At the question and answer session of a seminar held by UNAC on China's human rights issues relating to Tibet and Xinjiang, one of the organisation's representatives took the opportunity to state that she had been to Tibet, and did not see any persecution of Tibetans there. Instead, she found that people were able to have their own beliefs freely there. The reply given by the representative of "Human Rights in China" hit the mark when she said, "It appears that China is not satisfied with the control of its domestic public opinions, but it also extends its control overseas. Furthermore, it even obstructs the seminars of NGOs in the United Nations through a state-controlled 'GNGO'." This reply aroused tumultuous applause from the audience. It was apparent that that the intention of China’s ‘GNGO’ was plain to everybody.