(ADDS foreign ministry warning)

by Lorien Holland

BEIJING, April 11 (AFP) - A determined China announced Friday it would succeed in defeating the Denmark-sponsored motion critical of its human rights record and warned Copenhagen and its allies would suffer for its actions.

"China has full confidence that it will defeat this seventh anti-China motion under the support of the majority of the members of the UN Commission on Human Rights," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said.

She warned that China's relations with Denmark, the United States, Holland and the 11 other supporting states would be damaged because "they have created conflict and harmed relations with China by insisting on putting forward the anti-China motion.

"This goes aginst the will of most UN members," she added.

Denmark, backed by nine fellow European Union (EU) members, the United States, Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, filed a resolution to the 53-member Geneva Commission on Thursday denouncing Chinese human rights abuses.

The resolution was presented at the last possible minute in a bid to garner maximum support.

But following strong diplomatic pressure from China to swap confrontation for human rights dialogue, a number of nations that had supported previous anti-China resolutions -- including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Australia -- withdrew their backing for the resolution

"The nature of the anti-China motion is to pressurize China and interfere in China's domestic affairs," the spokeswoman said.

"These countries have insisted on putting forward the anti-China motion and have created conflict. This will harm their relations and cooperation with China and will harm relations between China and these countries and it will damage cooperation in international affairs," she added.

From the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre until this year, the European Union (EU) used the annual meeting of the commission in Geneva to table a motion critical of China's human rights record.

But this year, France vetoed a united front, saying China had made tangible improvements although human rights groups accusing Paris of swapping human rights for increased trade with China.

In Geneva, one of China's top representatives, Wang Guangya, accused Denmark and the motion's co-sponsors of using the Commission as a court room.

"Some Western countries look upon themselves as the judges at the UN Human Rights Commission and see the majority of developing countries as the accused," Wang told Xinhua news agency.

"They willfully trample on the norms of international relations and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, blatantly spread lies and vicious slanders against sovereign states," he said.

Diplomats in Geneva believe China will have no difficulty in crushing the resolution with a "no action" motion, which can be brought at any time before the vote on Tuesday.