HR Council to Resume Organization

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Geneva, Apr 6 (Prensa Latina) The UN Human Rights Council confirmed on Friday, shortly before beginning a break for April s religious celebrations, that it will restart negotiations on Tuesday for its own institutional shaping.

The new UN branch, according to the resolution approved by the General Assembly, should conclude that process before June 18, and its permanent working commissions are working hard toward that objective.

The issue is to achieve consensus about its working methods and forms, which allow the authority to comply with its duties without falling into the vices that put paid to its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission.

That commission yielded to the pressures of the United States and its allies for implementation of selectivity and double standards that turned it into an instrument of the White House s aggressive foreign policy against the southern countries.

The four commissions, designated to represent the 47 current Council members, are trying to achieve consensus about essential issues such as a temporary universal revision of the human rights situation.

This point seeks to achieve equal participation of all in the analysis of any incident or denunciation, of course including the countries affected, and avoiding injustice or political manipulation when deliberating.

The working groups are also making efforts to define a fair procedure to formulate and treat denunciations about any crisis in the area of prerogatives of populations, social sectors, or individuals.

May and June will be important for the Council because, besides concluding that process, it should renew almost a third of its members and develop its fifth ordinary session before the new members assume their posts.

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