Kuwait sees trouble ahead at UNHRC on Iran, Syria and Lanka
Saturday, 8 March 2014 00:00
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Kuwait, a voting member of the UNHRC, has predicted major polarisation in the UN Human Rights Council this month, because the session would address what it called several sensitive files, including the issue of Sri Lanka.
Kuwait’s permanent delegate to the United Nations Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim told a Kuwaiti news agency that the Council would witness polarisation on the draft resolutions submitted on Syria, Iran and Sri Lanka because for the first time in the history of the Council, all five permanent members of the security council were also voting members at the UNHRC. Unlike the Security Council, the Kuwaiti Ambassador said, the UNHRC does not permit the use of veto power.
He pointed out that Kuwait’s vision towards dealing with those files would be in line with the State of Kuwait’s membership in the Human Rights Council. (DB)
