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International-UN-NGOs
UN rights body rejects attempt to criticise abuses in Chechnya
2004-04-15
The United Nations’ top human rights body on Thursday rejected an attempt by the European Union to urge Russia to prevent executions, torture and other human rights abuses in war-torn Chechnya.
In short: its not the Yanks or the Joooooos so we are not interested in what these guys do to other people.
Twenty-three countries in the 53-member commission
At least 7 of those countrys are considerd dictatorial by the standards of the commision
voted against the draft resolution, which had sought to "strongly condemn the ongoing serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in Chechnya". Russia effectively escaped further pressure to allow UN human rights specialists to probe the situation in Chechnya, as well as to open up the breakaway republic to aid agencies and human rights groups, which were key demands of the text. The draft resolution, filed by the EU <--this surprised me though and backed by several central and Eastern European <--this didnt states that were once in the Soviet orbit, had listed "forced disappearances, extra-judicial executions, torture, ill treatment, arbitrary detentions and abductions." It had also urged Russia to "urgently... stop and prevent violations of human rights" in Chechnya and to prosecute offenders. But only 13 countries approved the proposal, while seven states abstained in voting. Russia hailed the vote. "This fact has once again underlined that all attempts to present the situation in Chechnya as a problem from the point of view of human rights are made-up attempts that do not reflect the reality," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised comments.
and his lips fell off
The vote "convincingly showed that the world community regards the situation in chechnia as not suficiently in the media spotlights with care the moves Russia is undertaking to restore order in Chechnya, moves it is taking in the fight against terrorism and steps that are being taken to ensure a political solution on the republic’s territory," Interfax quoted Lavrov as saying. Thursday’s vote was the third time the UN commission has rejected censuring Russia over Chechnya, "with an ever larger number of votes," Lavrov said. Rebels have fought Russian forces in Chechnya on and off for the past decade. During the first Russo-Chechen war in 1994-1996, separatists drove back Russian forces and the mainly Muslim republic received de facto independence. The Kremlin poured back its forces in October 1999 in what it called a very, very, very slow lightning anti-terrorist strike, but the conflict has turned into a guerrilla conflict that continues to claim on a daily basis. Rights groups have documented thousands of cases of kidnappings and torture of civilians during the conflict, most of which they blame on Russian forces.
Posted by:Evert Visser in NL

#2  Wasn't goin' anywhere, anyway. Vladie knows how to ignore people.
Posted by: mojo   2004-04-15 7:58:59 PM  

#1  the skerry solution to iraq - bring in the UN -
Posted by: Dan   2004-04-15 5:01:15 PM  

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