NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Hina) - The third committee of the UN General Assembly in Monday continued a discussion about a report by UN special rapporteur for human rights in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, Jiri Dienstbier.
participating in the session was also Croatian representative Ivan Simonovic. He criticised the report, saying the report had, he thought, omitted positive facts about the human rights situation in Croatia. Also, he said, in the same report three different countries were being placed in the same basket. In the case of Croatia, the report was orientated on the freedom of the media and the issue of equality in the application of certain laws, while in the case of Yugoslavia, the report focuses on the violation of basic human rights, Simonovic stressed. Dienstbier had omitted to even register that Croatia had accepted all the six basic UN documents on human rights. In line with the Constitution, they have become an
NEW YORK, Nov 8 (Hina) - The third committee of the UN General
Assembly in Monday continued a discussion about a report by UN
special rapporteur for human rights in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
and Yugoslavia, Jiri Dienstbier.
participating in the session was also Croatian representative Ivan
Simonovic.
He criticised the report, saying the report had, he thought,
omitted positive facts about the human rights situation in
Croatia.
Also, he said, in the same report three different countries were
being placed in the same basket.
In the case of Croatia, the report was orientated on the freedom of
the media and the issue of equality in the application of certain
laws, while in the case of Yugoslavia, the report focuses on the
violation of basic human rights, Simonovic stressed.
Dienstbier had omitted to even register that Croatia had accepted
all the six basic UN documents on human rights.
In line with the Constitution, they have become an integral part of
Croatia's legislature, Simonovic said.
Unfortunately, Dienstbier's report holds less information than
regional reports by the Council of Europe or the Organisation for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and in some instances,
is directly in opposition to them, Simonovic said.
He recalled that the special rapporteur was several years late with
the drawing up of a whole review of cooperation of Croatia, Bosnia-
Herzegovina and Yugoslavia, as well as progress in the protection
of human rights in these countries.
The Croatian Government is waiting for the review of the human
rights situation in Croatia from 1991 hitherto to be published. The
special rapporteur is obligated to do so in line with a UN Human
Rights Commission decision from 1996, Simonovic said.
Dienstbier's report about the situation in Croatia was drafted
after his visit to Croatia from July 25 to August 4.
Simonovic reiterated that Dienstbier had part of the time spent at
private premises, on holiday. As he himself said, he spent his
vacations in the north Adriatic town of Opatija and Istrian towns,
as well as Knin, Split and Zagreb.
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