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12-14-2012, 09:16 PM
Iran Reiterates Commitment to Int'l Conventions on Human Rights
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of Iran's High Council of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani underlined Iran's commitment to international human rights rules and treaties despite a number of reservations.
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"We will remain committed to our undertakings. Our basic stance is based on respecting the treaties that we have already signed," Larijani said, addressing an expert meeting on human rights here in Tehran on Wednesday.
"We never violate a treaty, rather we nullify it if we need to, and then we declare our decision since we are free to do that," Larijani stated.
He, meantime, said that documents on human rights have been drafted and adopted by secular lawyers and thinkers and without the involvement of non-secular sides.
"We have accepted and signed parts of these documents and we have questions about them, if we had been the author of these documents we would have replaced them with other documents," Larijani added.
Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.
The same month, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.
It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama's promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.
TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary-General of Iran's High Council of Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani underlined Iran's commitment to international human rights rules and treaties despite a number of reservations.
http://media.farsnews.net/Media/8807/Images/jpg/A0750/A0750760.jpg
"We will remain committed to our undertakings. Our basic stance is based on respecting the treaties that we have already signed," Larijani said, addressing an expert meeting on human rights here in Tehran on Wednesday.
"We never violate a treaty, rather we nullify it if we need to, and then we declare our decision since we are free to do that," Larijani stated.
He, meantime, said that documents on human rights have been drafted and adopted by secular lawyers and thinkers and without the involvement of non-secular sides.
"We have accepted and signed parts of these documents and we have questions about them, if we had been the author of these documents we would have replaced them with other documents," Larijani added.
Iran has always lashed out at the western countries for using human rights issues as a tool and pretext for pressurizing independent states to conceal their own crimes and wrong deeds.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in November lambasted continued violation of human rights by certain European countries, and asked them to listen to the demands of their people.
The same month, the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a report on the violation of human rights by the US inside and outside its borders, and urged Washington to join the international conventions which prohibit such crimes.
It was stressed in the Foreign Ministry report that the United States, as a self-proclaimed standard bearer of defense for the human rights in the world, has despite the international community and the UN demand, and even despite President Barack Obama's promise, still not shut down the horrendous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.