The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has expressed concern over the proliferation of selective country-specific resolutions at the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Speaking at the council’s session in New York on Monday on behalf of the NAM, Iran's Ambassador to the UN Gholam Hossein Dehqani said that the selective practice exploited human rights for political purposes.
It also breaches the principles of universality, objectivity and non-selectivity in addressing those issues, he added.
He said NAM, whose rotating presidency is held by Iran, called for non-selective approaches to human rights issues and global efforts to avert such methods.
Dehqani said the movement asks all member countries to strengthen cooperation and exchange views on how to prevent political and selective exploitation of human rights that would discredit the UN Commission on Human Rights.
The Iranian diplomat further denounced recent terrorist attacks by Daesh Takfiri group in Beirut, Baghdad and Paris and expressed sympathy with the bereaved families of the victims.
“The recent terrorist incidents once again prove that terrorism and violent extremism are regarded as a global threat and that the fight against them needs international cooperation,” Dehqani said.
The Iranian envoy’s remarks came in the wake of terrorist attacks in the French and Lebanese capitals.
Daesh has claimed responsibility for the deadly assaults.
More than 130 people were killed and roughly 350 injured, nearly 100 of whom in critical condition, after assailants struck at least six different venues in and around the French capital late on Friday.
In another terrorist attack on Thursday, 44 people were killed and nearly 240 others were injured when two large explosions rocked a security post in Hussaineya Street in the crowded Borj al-Barajneh neighborhood in a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
