GENEVA(RAHNUMA): Saudi Arabia’s representative to the Human Rights Council condemned the disruption of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.
Speaking at the United Nations in Geneva, Saudi Arabia said Iranian aggressions are a clear violation of international law, and are unjustifiable.
“Iran’s continued approach will not yield any results, we reiterate our condemnation of Iranian aggressions,” he added.
The UAE Representative to the Human Rights Council said the UAE rejected Iran’s cowardly justifications for its brutal attacks and called on the council to condem Iran’s attack.
“Since its founding, the UAE has been built on the principle of good neighborliness, we affirm that we reserve all our rights to preserve our sovereignty,” he added.
Qatar’s Representative to the Human Rights Council said Iran is targeting civilians and public services in Gulf countries.
The United Nations’ top rights official on Wednesday urged states to end the Iran conflict, describing the situation in the Middle East as extremely dangerous and unpredictable.
“This conflict has an unprecedented power to ensnare countries across borders and around the world,” United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk told an emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva called by Gulf states.
“The only guaranteed way to prevent this is to end the conflict, and I urge all states, and particularly those with influence, to do everything in their power to achieve this,” he said.
The UN rights chief also warned that strikes around Iran and Israel’s nuclear sites risk unleashing an “unmitigated catastrophe.”
“Recent missile strikes near nuclear sites in both Israel and Iran underscore the immense danger of further escalation. States are flirting with unmitigated catastrophe,” Volker Turk said in a video statement.
