From Xinhua News Agency:

Scholars and officials from other countries have strongly denounced the July 5 riot in Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and expressed their support to the Chinese government’s measures to maintain social order and stability.

In an interview with Xinhua on Friday, Bernard Boussougou Moungonga, a researcher with a Gabonese humanities institute, said he backed the Chinese government’s measures to maintain stability in Xinjiang.

Moungonga condemned the separatist forces operating outside China for attempting to split China, adding that all these schemes are doomed to fail.

It is imperative for leaders of any country to brush aside intervention by external forces and guarantee the safety of their citizens’ life and property, he said.