Belarusian authorities haven't implemented any decisions of Human Rights Committee
This was stated by the head of the
Belarusian Helsinki Committee Hary Pahaniaila who commented on the
recent report on human rights violations in the world, presented by
the Belarusian Foreign Ministry.
As said by the human rights
defender, human rights are violated everywhere where there are
clashes between the interests of an individual and a state. In
European countries such cases are considered by various agencies,
courts consider civil lawsuits and everything is receives publicity.
The Belarusian authorities, on the contrary, ignore decisions of
international organizations, including the UN, concerning respect to
human rights.
"Citizens of the countries which are
members of the Council of Europe, apply to the Strasbourg court on
human rights and, by the way, often win cases. The very practice of
such trials is used by the Belarusian MFA in its report. However, the
MFA says nothing of the fact that Belarusian citizens have the same
rights at the UN Human Rights Committee. The Committee has issued
more than 20 decisions confirming violations of rights of Belarusian
citizens by the state, but none of them have been implemented,"
argues Mr. Pahaniaila.
This is the first time Belarus has
prepared such a report. Similar reports are also prepared by Russia,
China and the USA. It can be assumed that the new foreign minister
decided to take an aggressive position. The human rights defender
Uladzimir Labkovich agrees with him, as far as the report of the
Belarusian MFA is very close to the Russian one in its structure and
orientation.
"Pitifully enough, Belarus has not the
single cases of human rights abuses, presented by the MFA in its
report, but systemic abuses. I think that the new minister looked up
this know-how in Russia – if you cannot answer one's pretensions,
it's better to use the "you are fool yourself" rhetorics,"
commented Mr. Labkovich.
Bear in mind that several days ago
the Minister of Foreign Affairs Uladzimir Makei presented the MFA
report dedicated to human rights abuses in 23 western countries.
