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Ambassador S.Sukhbold gives speech at UNGA’s plenary meeting
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Mongolia to the United Nations S.Sukhbold delivered a speech at the 53rd Plenary Meeting of the UNGA 70 on Report of the Human Rights Council on Tuesday.
Sukhbold expressed deepest condolences to the families of victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris and said the Mongolians are with the French in the difficult time. He emphasized that the current report of the Human Rights Council shows a realistic picture of the current human rights violations and challenges worldwide and recommended possible ways and instruments to defend human rights, liberty, equality and dignity and combat intolerance, discrimination and violence, and added that Mongolia highly spoke this report.
He also reaffirmed a basic position of the Mongolian government over human rights issues, and pointed out that Mongolia has been undertaking concrete steps in issues of education for human rights, ensuring gender equality, enforcing women, protecting rights of children, elders and people with disabilities, combating human trafficking and abolishing the capital punishment.
He thanked those countries who supported Mongolia in its being elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council for 2016-2018 tenure, and said Mongolia will make big efforts to fulfill its voluntary pledges for human rights and saving human rights across the world.
