Arab News, Thursday Aug
12, 2018 | Thu al-Hijjah 1, 1439
Bahrain
'willing to hold constructive meetings' with new UN rights chief
MANAMA:
Bahrain is willing to hold constructive meetings with the UN’s newly appointed
High Commissioner for Human Rights to turn a new page towards developing healthy
relations with the international community, Assistant Foreign Minister Abdulla
Al Doseri said. He stressed the kingdom’s keenness to co-operate with
international organisations and honour its obligations towards the UN, the Human
Rights Council and High Commission for Human Rights as part of efforts to
further promote human rights.
He said it is time to come to terms with the
past which caused harm to the reputation and work of the Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, congratulating former Chilean president Michelle
Bachelet on her appointment as the new UN human rights chief.
In a statement to our sister paper Akhbar Al
Khaleej, Mr Al Doseri expressed his aspiration for a successful term of office
and constructive and transparent co-operation with all countries to achieve
progress that couldn’t be attained during the past tenure. He hoped that the
tenure of the new High Commissioner will be distinguished by objectivity,
fairness and transparency in dealing with human rights issues.