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Sudanese government says the human rights situation in Sudan is improving |
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Saturday, 15 December 2007 |
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The Sudanese government considered the decision of the UN Human Rights Council to dissolve a group of experts to monitor abuses in Darfur as an indication of improvement of the human rights situation in Sudan.
Speaking to Miraya FM, the Justice Minister Mohammed Ali Al-Mardi says that the UN Human Rights Council did justice to Sudan with the new decision.
“In fact this a victory for Sudan", said Al-Mardi, "We have always opposed these experts whom there is no justification to make them a group of human rights monitors in Sudan or to review the resolutions of the Human Rights Council on Sudan. In many African countries, there are glaring violations of human rights, and no experts have ever been appointed to monitor the performance of these countries. Despite that, we were able to convince all these that our human rights situation was good and we refuted all the allegations made by organizations."
He added, "he other thing is that, the mandate of Sima Samar should be ended.”
The UN Human Rights Council unanimously decided to halt the activities of the experts’ committee which comprises seven members tasked to monitor the human rights abuses in Darfur. The Council however, extended for one more year the mandate of the UN Human Rights special rapporteur to Sudan, Sima Samar.
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