Amnesty International: The end of the work of UN inspectors in Yemen was a disgrace
According to Fars News Agency’s International Group, reactions to the incident are still ongoing after the plan to extend the mission of UN inspectors in Yemen was not approved on Thursday evening. In a statement, Amnesty International called the decision a product of pressure from the Saudi government and Riyadh partners.
According to the Al-Khobar Al-Yameni website, in Statement “Failure to extend the UN investigation in Yemen is a disgrace to the record of the Human Rights Council,” it said.
Human Rights Institution “International Services for Human Rights” (abbreviated) ISHR“Countries that voted against or abstained from voting in favor of extending the mandate of UN inspectors in Yemen, in fact, supported the impunity of war criminals and voted against the rights, dignity and future of the Yemeni people,” the statement said.
The statement stressed that the presence of a UN team of inspectors in Yemen was a guarantee that the humanitarian crisis in the country would continue to be monitored.
Amnesty International’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Statement Separately, he accused the Saudi, Bahraini and UAE governments of “shamelessly” trying to stop the international investigation mechanism in Yemen, and said that countries that voted not to extend the inspectors’ work should be ashamed of their work. He stressed that these countries turned their backs just when the Yemeni people needed them.
Save the Children also reacted to the UN Human Rights Council’s decision, and its director, Kazawi Jubert, wrote on Twitter that the bill was a major blow to the millions of Yemeni children who hoped for UN action.
“The Human Rights Council, in cooperation with human rights organizations, intended to launch a new mechanism to investigate the occurrence of war crimes in Yemen, which is the end of the mission,” said Abdul Rashid al-Faqih, executive director of the Mawatna human rights organization in Yemen. “The team of investigators is a valuable gift to human rights violators in Yemen and another blow to the victims of war.”
Yemeni National Salvation Government (Sanaa-based) Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein al-Azi also reacted to the UN Human Rights Council’s decision to end the mission of the Yemeni team of inspectors, saying that the UN has shown that its approvals are based on the funding it receives. , And the law has no validity in the meantime. He called this fact unfortunate.
The Yemeni official stressed that the obstruction of the work of the UN team of inspectors is a decisive reason why all the statements of the Sanaa government regarding the crimes of the Saudi coalition are true and the accusations of the coalition against the Sanaa government are false.
“If the truth were otherwise, the investigation would not have been canceled and the work of the inspection team would not have been completed,” the Sanaa deputy foreign minister added.
The UN Human Rights Council voted in favor of ending its inspectors’ mission in Yemen by a narrow margin on Thursday evening. Of the 47 council members, 21 opposed the extension of the inspectors’ mandate and 18 agreed. Seven members abstained.
On September 14 (September 23), the council, under pressure and lobbying from Saudi Arabia, prevented the inspection team from reading the report on the war in Yemen. The report accused Saudi Arabia, the resigned Yemeni government and the “Southern Transitional Council” (Southern Transitional Council) of committing war crimes.
The Saudi government opposed the reading of the report, claiming that the UN inspectors’ information was “political” and “biased”.
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