BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 18. Azerbaijan expressed
concern relating to persistent human rights challenges throughout the
European Union, together with racism and discrimination affecting
ethnic and non secular minorities, the expansion of Islamophobia, and
growing social intolerance.
This was said in a press release by the Everlasting Mission of
Azerbaijan to the UN Workplace and different Worldwide Organizations
in Geneva, voiced through the Interactive Dialogue on the Excessive
Commissioner’s Annual Report on the 62nd session of the UN Human
Rights Council.
“I want to thank the Excessive Commissioner for his
complete report. Certainly, the report has been developed throughout
the troublesome instances of liquidity and monetary constraint throughout
your entire UN system even additional sophisticated by world turbulent
and unpredictable geopolitical atmosphere.
Azerbaijan believes that the safety and promotion of human
rights, together with the best to growth and financial, social and
cultural rights, stay on the core of democracy, peace and
prosperity.
It’s nice fortune that the South Caucasus has received now a
historic probability to develop into a spot of non-confrontation and
co-operation. And the advantage of that’s already there. Azerbaijan
has opened and provided new financial, commerce and transit views
not solely to the international locations in shut proximity, but additionally far past
the area.
One of many predominant priorities of the Authorities is reconstruction
and rehabilitation actions alongside the return of quite a few IDPs
to their houses. The precise to return and the best to respectable life
are important human rights. An impediment to realization of those
rights, in addition to to the identification of hundreds of lacking
individuals, is the abundance of landmines and explosive ordnance
throughout huge areas. We name on the worldwide neighborhood to not
stay detached and act in solidarity.
We specific concern relating to persistent human rights challenges
throughout the European Union, together with racism and discrimination
affecting ethnic and non secular minorities, the expansion of
Islamophobia, and growing social intolerance. We stay
involved by reviews of unequal remedy of migrants and asylum
seekers, limitations to integration, and practices that increase
questions relating to dignity, safety, and equal entry to
rights. Human rights ought to be promoted constantly and with out
selectivity, and significant worldwide cooperation should be based mostly
on mutual respect, objectivity, and equal requirements.
We thank the Unbiased Knowledgeable for her complete report and
welcome its emphasis on peace, inclusion and peaceable dispute
decision as important components of worldwide solidarity.
We share the view that sustainable peace requires belief,
dialogue and respect for human dignity. On this regard, Azerbaijan
stays dedicated to advancing post-conflict restoration by means of
measures that assist reconciliation and social cohesion.
As mirrored within the report, the Authorities of Azerbaijan
attaches specific significance to restoring cultural and non secular
heritage within the previously occupied territories. We imagine that
preserving cultural heritage and rebuilding understanding between
communities are vital contributions to sustainable peace.
We additionally underscore the significance of the best to fact as an
important component of therapeutic and reconciliation. Efforts to
establish lacking individuals and guarantee accountability stay vital
for affected households and for constructing confidence in a peaceable
future. Alongside the secure and dignified return of IDPs, these
efforts search to create situations conducive to long-term stability,
coexistence and growth.
Azerbaijan stays dedicated to worldwide cooperation and to
selling peace, dialogue and mutual respect according to the
ideas of equality and non-discrimination,” the assertion
stated.
