Foreign Ministry: Syria welcomes the positive results of cooperation between China and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Syria welcomed the positive results of cooperation between the Chinese government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the agreements that resulted from the recent visit of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the People’s Republic of China.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement today that: “The government of the Syrian Arab Republic renews its appreciation for the friendly positions of the People’s Republic of China in international forums towards important international issues, including those related to human rights issues, as they reflect the well-established principles based on the rules of international law and the principles, purposes and provisions of the Charter of the United Nations which rejects the Western attempts to politicize human rights issues in international forums and use them as a tool for hegemony and interference in the internal affairs of the member states of the United Nations in order to undermine the sovereignty, political independence and national options of states.”

The Ministry added that the Syrian government welcomes the positive results of the existing cooperation between the Chinese government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as the agreements that resulted from the recent visit of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of the Chinese government, which indicates the Chinese side’s keenness to strengthen Cooperation between the two sides within the framework of respecting the principles and purposes of the United Nations away from politicization and in support of the work of the United Nations related to human rights, which constitutes an important contribution of the People’s Republic of China to human rights issues at the international level.

NR