BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

17/11/2006

UN committee votes for Uzbek-Belarusian resolution

UN General Assembly committee has voted to discourage UN human rights bodies from adopting resolutions condemning the human rights situation in any country.

The draft resolution, sponsored by Belarus and Uzbekistan, was approved by the assembly's human rights committee ιβ Thursday by a vote of 77-63, with 26 abstentions. It now goes to the full 192-member General Assembly for a final vote.

Its key provision "stresses the need to avoid politically motivated and biased country-specific resolutions on the situation of human rights, confrontational approaches, exploitation of human rights for political purposes, selective targeting of individual countries for extraneous considerations and double standards in the work of the United Nations on human rights issues."

Before the vote, Belarus said the idea for a resolution opposing the targeting of specific countries over their human rights record was approved at the September summit of the 117-nation Nonaligned Movement. Countries in the movement were its main supporters.

Source:

http://news.uzreport.com/mir.cgi?lan=e&id=23349

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