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INTERNATIONAL

Interview with His Excellency

Mr. All Khalfan =Mansouri

Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the United Nations Office and other international
organizations in Geneva

The State of Qatar is a member of the Human Rights relations between States. In view of the ongoing human
Council (HRC)for the fourth time since its establishment. rights violations that have accompanied these measures
What are your priority focus areas in the Council? since they were taken on 5 June 2017, our Permanent
The State of Qatar attaches great importance to the Mission has sought to draw the attention of the Human
work of the Human Rights Council which it considers Rights Council and its mechanisms, including the special
a central and important mechanism in the international procedures mechanism, the universal periodic review
efforts to promote and protect human rights. Based on mechanism and other relevant mechanisms, together with
this conviction, the State of Qatar has, on more than one the High Commissioner's attention to these violations and
occasion, sought to renew its membership of the Human sought to urge all of them to act with a view of stopping
Rights Council with a view to effectively contributing them, compensating those affected and holding those
to the most efficient discharge of the council's mandate. responsible accountable.
Each member State or geographical group has priorities Our Permanent Mission will remain deeply seized of this
that it seeks to achieve and works to urge the Council to issue until such measures are definitively and permanently
give due attention to the priorities and to act upon them. removed. It should be noted in this regard that the Human
Since June 2017, the State of Qatar has been subjected Rights Council adopts an annual resolution entitled
to unilateral coercive measures by some countries in "Unilateral coercive measures and human rights"
the region. These measures ran counter to the Charter On the other hand, the Permanent Mission will keep
of the United Nations, international law and peaceful UP its efforts to put forward a number of issues that are

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