Iran Urges All World States to Cooperate in Improving Human Rights Situation
Iran’s Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva Seyed Mohammad Reza Sajjadi called on all the world states to cooperate in improving the situation of human rights across the globe, describing it as the responsibility of all the UN member states.
“Supporting human rights is the equal responsibility of all the UN members,” Sajjadi said, addressing a UN meeting titled ‘Strengthening International Cooperation on Human Rights’ in Geneva on Saturday.
He also stressed the international community’s important role in supporting national efforts and also strengthening and developing the capabilities of the national human rights bodies without any interfering in the domestic affairs of the other countries.
Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November 2010 lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry in November 2011 issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.
It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama’s promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.
