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MUSCAT – A US State Department report alleging that Oman has not taken enough measures to check human trafficking has come in for exceptionally severe criticism from the Majlis Ash’shura, currently in session here. The house rejected and condemned the report which included the Sultanate and a number of other states in the Gulf in a list of countries that have made no effort to combat trafficking in humans.
Addressing members on Saturday, Majlis Chairman Shaikh Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Isa’ee, said the State Department report was ‘false’, stressing that Oman had always adhered to “the solid values that called for respect of man and his dignity”. The country’s laws and regulations, he said, secured human rights and freedom and dignity without any discrimination between citizens and expatriates.
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A strongly-worded resolution passed by the council, meanwhile, said the US accusations were false and groundless, adding: “The Majlis Ash’shura has followed with concern the report issued by the US State Department alleging that the Sultanate does not make enough efforts to combat human trafficking. The Majlis Ash’shura, as a national platform that represents the Omani society, rejects and condemns the false and untrue allegations stated in the report.”
It said the baseless observations contained in the report contradicted with the fact that Oman enforced and maintained labour laws and regulations that protected expatriates’ rights, maintained their dignity and provided them ‘with peace of mind’.
The Majlis reiterated that within the context of the country’s Basic Law, regulations and laws, the Sultanate preserved human dignity and rights. “They (the US government) should rather revise their failure in foreign policies and practices in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan before accusing others,” it further said.
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