{"id":16418,"date":"2018-09-26T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16418"},"modified":"2018-09-26T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:27:13","slug":"saudi-arabia-kuwait-slam-un-for-human-rights-report-on-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=16418","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia, Kuwait slam UN for human rights report on Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1378256\/middle-east\" readability=\"63\">\n<p>\nDUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Wednesday slammed a report prepared by United Nations experts over alleged human rights violations in Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>\nKuwait\u2019s permanent delegate to the UN, Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim told the 39<sup>th<\/sup> session of the UN Human Rights Council that the report was \u201cdeeply flawed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201c[The report] seems to hurl false accusations at the Saudi-led Coalition,\u201d Al-Ghunaim said.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said the UN experts singled out the coalition of Arab states fighting Yemen\u2019s Iran-allied Houthi militia as accountable for the human rights violations in the war-torn country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe Arab Coalition never ceased to cooperate with the UN specialists in Yemen to ensure that civilian casualties are averted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Kuwaiti diplomat went on to give the Arab coalition credit for their \u201cefforts to restore normalcy and hope to the lives of the Yemeni people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Abdulaziz Al-Waselthe, also said the report has come away from \u201cobjectivity and characterized by haste\u201d in drawing conclusions and came full of errors in its approach and contents.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn a speech to the Human Rights Council, A-Waselthe said that the report ignored the information provided to the group of experts by the concerning agencies in the Arab Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Kuwaiti envoy condemned the Houthis\u2019 acts of aggression that violates international humanitarian laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI: Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Wednesday slammed a report prepared by United Nations experts over alleged human rights violations in Yemen. Kuwait\u2019s permanent delegate to the UN, Ambassador Jamal Al-Ghunaim told the 39th session of the UN Human Rights Council that the report was \u201cdeeply flawed.\u201d \u201c[The report] seems to hurl false accusations at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}