Iran Press/ Europe: Speaking at the 47th session of the Human Rights Council on Tuesday, Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh, the Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the UN Office in Geneva, said that unilateral coercive measures and sanctions should be stopped due to the immediate and persistent adverse effects on the target population and they should also be considered a modern genocide.
"All countries have a responsibility to end the occupation to prevent genocide," said Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh, noting that the most heinous case of genocide is taking place in occupied Palestine today.
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative at the UN Office in Geneva referred to the discovery of mass graves belonging to native Canadian children, calling such crimes a systematic and brutal genocide that has taken place over centuries of silence.
Esmail Baghaei Hamaneh noted that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), in its report in 2015, described these crimes as "cultural genocide"; it was merely an attempt to downplay the issue and change the reality. Therefore, it is "genocide."
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