Chvastou criticised the work of the Human Rights Council
01.03.2013 |Politics| EuroBelarus Information Service,
According to the representative of Belarusan Foreign Ministry, Minsk is ready to help Human Rights Council by submitting annual reports on cases of human rights violations in certain countries.
At the period of February 25 – March 22, 2013 Belarusan delegation led by the permanent representative of the Republic of Belarus to the local UN office in Geneva Mikhail Chvastou is participating in the 22ndSession of the UN Human Rights Council, reports the press service of Belarusan Foreign Ministry.
The head of the Belarusan delegation made a statement in the course of the common segment dedicated to the evaluation of results in human rights’ encouragement and defence after 20 years from the day when Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action were adopted. Mikhail Chvastou noted that the international community achieved certain progress in many aspects concerning human rights’ agenda, including the sphere of fight on trade in people. At the same time Belarusan diplomat gave critical access of the current condition of the Human Rights Council, pointing out to numerous problems in this human rights’ body: selectivity, serious misbalance in looking into human rights locally, insufficient information awareness of the problems with human rights in the countries that traditionally represent themselves as developed democracies, promotion of disputable human rights concepts and other.
The permanent representative of Belarus stated that our country is ready to facilitate the elimination of the mentioned faults, also by submitting annual reports on cases of human rights violations in certain countries.
Let us recall that first such publication was submitted to the participants of the session, including the representatives of the international NGOs and civil society that show genuine interest to the report of the Belarusan Foreign Ministry. The report was also submitted to the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights Navanethem Pillay as well as to other human rights mechanisms.
As EuroBelarus Information Service reported earlier, last year Belarusan Ministry of foreign Affairs severely criticised the UN Council Resolution on Human Rights dealing with the situation with human rights in our country and refused to cooperate with the Special Rapporteur on human rights to Belarus.
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