Qatar reaffirms support to rights council

Qatar has reaffirmed its keenness to co-operate with the various Human Rights Council mechanisms to enable it to carry out its mandate with transparency, objectivity, independence and integrity.This came in Qatar’s speech delivered yesterday by ambassador Faisal bin Abdullah al-Henzab, Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations and other international organisations office at Geneva at the 32nd session of the Human Rights Council, entitled “The high-level panel discussion on the tenth anniversary of the Human Rights Council.”Al-Henzab said, “The creation of this Council a decade ago was a historic turning point in the international community’s efforts to improve the situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms.” He added that “the emergence of new forms of challenges today, such as increasing frequency of armed conflicts, acts of terrorism and extremism, violence and discrimination and the accompanying violations posed an unprecedented challenge for the Council to respond to these developments and keep pace with new developments, especially in light of the division and the absence of international will, which disabled many other United Nations mechanisms and contributed to the decline in the human rights situation in many countries.”He noted that this Council today is demanded more than ever to redouble its efforts to implement the goals for which it was established, stressing that to succeed in this task, the Council should enhance the abilities and potential of moving away from politicisation, selectivity and double standards, and to tend to adhere to the principles of transparency, objectivity and professionalism.