Human rights situation in the OT – CHR – Summary record (excerpts)

COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS

Fifty-seventh session

SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 2nd MEETING

Held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva,

on Tuesday, 20 March 2001, at 10 a.m.

Chairperson : Mr. DESPOUY (Argentina)

CONTENTS

STATEMENT BY MS. ZELJKA ANTUNOVIC, DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER OF CROATIA

STATEMENT BY MR. PASKAL MILO, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF ALBANIA

STATEMENT BY MR. MOHAMED AUJJAR, MINISTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF MOROCCO

STATEMENT BY MR. JORG E CASTAÑEDA, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MEXICO

STATEMENT BY MR. DATUK SERI SYED HAMID ALBAR, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MALAYSIA

STATEMENT BY MS. ANNA LINDH, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF SWEDEN

STATEMENT BY MR. OULAI SIENE, MINISTER OF JUSTICE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE

ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK OF THE SESSION

The meeting was called to order at 10.10 a.m.

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STATEMENT BY MR. MOHAMED AUJJAR, MINISTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF MOROCCO

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17. Lastly, he drew the attention of the Commission to the serious situation in the Middle East and the ongoing deterioration in the living conditions of the Palestinian people, whose rights were being violated daily. The international community must assume its responsibilities by ensuring respect for the international legal order and by accommodating the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people to establish its own State and enjoy all its rights.

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STATEMENT BY MR. DATUK SERI SYED HAMID ALBAR, MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF MALAYSIA

24. Mr. HAMID ALBAR (Malaysia) …

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 … The major Powers were applying a double standard, which allowed certain countries to display contempt for the Commission’s mechanisms, while others were condemned, if not sanctioned. That situation must be curtailed if the Commission’s credibility was to be maintained. In that connection, Malaysia was deeply concerned by the suffering inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli regime and by the systematic violation of that people’s fundamental rights, particularly its right to self-determination, notwithstanding the numerous resolutions and meetings of the Commission and the General Assembly condemning such violations. The international community must put an immediate stop to them. Malaysia and the other members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference continued to call for the full implementation of Commission on Human Rights resolution S-5/1, on violations of the rights of the Palestinian people by Israel, which the Commission had adopted at its fifth special session. In that connection, the meeting of States parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention must be reconvened as a matter of urgency.

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The meeting rose at 1 p.m.