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Vietnam attends UN Human Rights Council’s 43rd session

Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international organisations in Geneva, led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 15.
Vietnam attends UN Human Rights Council’s 43rd session ảnh 1At the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council (Photo: Xinhua/VNA)

Geneva (VNA) – Ambassador Le Thi Tuyet Mai, Permanent Representative of Vietnam tothe UN, the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other internationalorganisations in Geneva, led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 43rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland on June 15.

The event, chaired by President of theCouncil - Austrian Ambassador ElisabethTichy-Fisslberger, was joined by representatives of 47 member countries, morethan 100 observation countries, international and non-governmentalorganizations based in Geneva.

Participates focused their discussions on mechanisms and committees of UN humanrights treaties, Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism on human rights, thesituation of human rights in Palestine and occupied Arab territories, ViennaDeclaration and Programme of Action on human rights, anti-racial discriminationand xenophobia, and technical assistance and capacity building in the field ofhuman rights.

The session will consider the adoption of about 40 draft resolutions anddecisions on human rights issues related to some countries such as Iran, the DemocraticPeople’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Myanmar, Syria, South Sudan, Nicaragua, Palestineand Libya.

After the closing ceremony of the session on June 19, the UN Human RightsCouncil will continue to consult on the time and method of organising the 44th session, which was slated for June but has been postponed due to the impact of COVID-19pandemic.

Based on new measures of Switzerland to respond to the pandemic and theconsensus of other countries, the 44th session is expected to beheld in July./.
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