Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi, reacting to the approval of human rights resolution against the Islamic Republic of Iran has said: “renewal of mandate of special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights (UNHR) lacks authenticity and legitimacy.”
Given the above issue, Ghasemi forthrightly condemned the adoption of an anti-Iran human rights resolution, following which, the mandate of UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran was extended for another year.
Ghasemi roundly condemned the UNHR resolution against Iran, saying it was politically-motivated, and signaled misuse of human rights as a political tool by "a limited number of countries".
Despite lack of support at the United Nations, a few members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) managed to pass this resolution, but since the resolution has been drafted by certain regional countries, which are among gross violators and abusers of human rights themselves, the Islamic Republic of Iran forthrightly and unequivocally condemns this resolution, the foreign ministry spokesman emphasized.
In view of the Islamic Republic of Iran, extension of mandate of special rapporteur of the United Nations Human Right (UNHR) for another year has no legal basis whatsoever, and is totally illegitimate.
In conclusion, Ghasemi considered studying Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as the most logical international mechanism to review issues related to human rights in all countries within the framework of UN rules and regulations based on principles of universality, non-discrimination and equality and fairness.
“Islamic Republic of Iran is ready to establish very intimate interaction and cooperation with such mechanism for spreading justice and equality in the world,” Ghasemi added.
