; (2) to strive to ensure the preservation of the distinct ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic identity of Uyghurs and members of other ethnic and religious groups in the XUAR; (3) to urge other nations to call for the cessation of all government-sponsored crackdowns, imprisonments, and detentions of people throughout the XUAR aimed at those involved in the peaceful expression of their ethnic, cultural, political, or religious identity; (4) to commend countries that have provided shelter and hospitality to Uyghurs in exile, including Turkey, Albania, and Germany