Syria: Cancelling Iran’s Membership in the Committee on Women’s Rights violates provisions of UN Charter

Syria has affirmed that the decision to end Iran’s membership in the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) violates the provisions of the UN Charter and the legal mechanisms for the work of this international organization.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said on its Twitter account today: “Politics, double standards, hypocrisy, and violation of the provisions of the Charter and legal mechanisms for the work of the United Nations are the basis for the American move for adopting the decision to end Iran’s membership in the Commission, in which it occupied a seat through democratic elections.”

Iran considered the decision as a political measure that lacks legality as it contradicts the UN Charter and creates a wrong approach in the international organization.

Diplomats in New York confirmed that the decision represents a dangerous precedent because Iran was elected as a member of the commission.

The Commission is an international body concerned with the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women, and its member states are chosen through voting in the United Nations Economic and Social Council, whose members are elected at the General Assembly.

Inas Abdulkareem