Russia Slams UN Human Rights Chief over 'Questionable Remarks' on Syria

Rasa - Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said assessments of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on the situation in Syria, he made on March 14, raise a question of the conformity of his actions to his position.

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Date: 16 March 2017 - 23:31

RNA - “We have to state that Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein’s speech at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council was not the first in a row of his statements and public assessments inadmissible for a UN official and opposite to commitments and requirements of professional ethics stipulated in the organization’s Charter for staff of the UN Secretariat,” Zakharova said, TASS reported.

“This poses the question whether such actions of Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein are in conformity with the high international status of his position,” she said.

The UN Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein told human rights council that the war has become “the worst man-made disaster the world has seen since World War II".

The entire conflict is this immense tidal wave of bloodshed and atrocity, he said, and accused the Syrian government of torture, unfair trials and execution.

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