Iranian Newspapers Hail US Ouster from UN Human Rights BodyIran's English newspapers on Sunday described the United States' ouster from the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) as humiliating defeat of its "usual arrogant way."Iran News said in its editorial that Washington has, on many occasions, used the commission to ostracize countries that did not toe with the US line. The fact that many international organizations consider the United States as a country with a very poor human rights record may have contributed to its unseating in the UN commission, the editorial noted. The US has offended the rest of the world by accusing, without even producing any evidence, a large number of countries of abusing the rights of their nationals while its own citizens of African and Mexican descent have been fighting unsuccessfully for decades to achieve equality, it added. On Thursday, the United States was voted off the UNCHR for the first time since its founding in 1947. The US came in fourth after France, Austria and Sweden with 29 votes in ballot for three seats allocated to Western nations that were up for reelection. The newspaper said that the belligerent policies pursued by President George W. Bush and his administration have definitely something to do with Washington's ouster. "Examples of these policies are the recent spy plane incident which caused a war of words between Beijing and Washington and the decision to sell sophisticated weapons and military equipment to Taiwan," it said. "Washington must rehabilitate itself before it is allowed again to become an active member of the United Nations," the editorial stressed. In a signed article entitled "humiliated," the Iran Daily commented on Washington's lose of its seat in the UNCHR, saying that the international community on Thursday gave such a "hard slap" to the United States' arrogance. "The unprecedented move reflects international indignation over US double standard, which is the root cause of suffering, instability, human rights violations and conflicts around the globe," the article said. It added that the US has appointed itself as the "gendarme of the new world order," issuing irresponsible reports on alleged human rights abuses and charges of terrorism against other nations, while overlooking its own dismal record of human rights abuse at home and abroad. "Let us hope America will learn from its debacle and mend its ways in the interest of genuine human rights, the article concluded. |
| People's Daily Online --- http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/ |