GENEVA, (ST)- Fighting terrorism will be a real gate to maintain human rights and a step towards making the Mediterranean area a more just and a safer world and wider place for human rights, said Member of the Syrian People’s Assembly Boutrus Murjaneh on Friday during the concluding session of the joint meeting of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
The non implementation of the UN General Assembly’s decision No. 2625, which calls on all countries to stop funding, encouraging and facilitating terrorist activities that seek changing countries’ regimes by force, in addition to the disregarding of human rights laws, have left no country safe or immune against human rights violation.
Participants in the meeting discussed the situation of human rights in the region and mechanisms of enhancing parliaments’ role in this regard in addition to immigration and asylum issues.
The People’s Assembly’s delegation held several meetings with other participating delegations. The sides exchanges views points on the regional situation and stressed Syria’s important role in fighting terrorism and the expansionist policies of some countries and their regional agents.
Hamda Mustafa