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Iran's appointment to chair UN rights meeting draws condemnation
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Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Ali Bahreini was named the chair of the two-day meeting because he was the only person nominated, following a submission from the Asia-Pacific group, a U.N. rights council spokesperson told Reuters.
Washington’s envoy to the 47-member council Michèle Taylor boycotted the meeting, calling the appointment an “affront to the collective conscience of the global community”.
“Any discussion led by representatives of a regime that continually, and with impunity, infringes upon its own citizens’ human rights is not just fruitless, but an insult to our shared ideals,” she added.
The United States and its Western allies have stepped up pressure on Iran’s Shi’ite Muslim clerical rulers over Tehran’s crackdown on protests triggered by the death in police custody of a young woman last year.
In an apparent swipe at Western sanctions on Iran, Bahreini opened the session by referring to “colonial policies” that he said deprive countries of revenues and hinder technology transfers and knowledge sharing.
Farideh Karimi, an Iranian woman who is president of Women’s Human Rights International Association, said her organisation wrote to democratic countries asking them not to attend.
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