Deletion
of
Rights from
UNSC Statement
on Mumbai Was
Work of a P-5,
Consensus
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
Sept 28, updated
Sept 29
-- The UN
Security
Council press
statements
issues this
year about
terrorist
attacks in
India, Mumbai
in July
then Delhi
earlier this
month, do not
include the
previously
standard
human rights
injunction
that "measures
taken to
combat
terrorism
comply with
all their
obligations
under
international
law, in
particular
international
human rights,
refugee and
humanitarian
law.”
On
September 28,
Inner City
Press
asked India's
Permanent
Representative
to the UN
Hardeep Singh
Puri
about it, on
camera, and he
said it was
removed at the
request of a
Permanent
member of the
Council and
that he would
tell Inner
City
Press which
one after the
briefing.
Video here,
from Minute
17.
After
the
briefing, he
told Inner
City Press who
it was -- but
this Mission
has declined
to comment,
even 20 hours
later, and
Thursday's
emphasis is
that despite
the
originator, it
was all by
consensus in
the end...
It
has been
argued, not
from the
Mission concerned,
that human
rights
injunctions to
the world's
largest
democracy
might be
unnecessary,
or that since
Permanent
members like
Russia have
been exempt
from the human
rights
paragraph,
India should
too.
But
the paragraph
has still
applied to others,
including Uganda
and Nigeria,
whose vote
against
Palestinian UN
membership is
being
courting.
So what is
the response?
That question,
and another,
remain
pending. Watch
this
site.
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