UN Special Committee on Israeli
Practices to visit Jordan on annual mission
GENEVA (14 June 2019) – The United
Nations Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human
Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
will undertake its annual mission to the region from 17 to 20 June 2019.
The three members of the Committee*
will travel to the Jordanian capital, Amman, to meet community representatives,
non-governmental organizations, Palestinian government officials, and UN
representatives to assess the human rights situation in the Occupied
Palestinian Territory and Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.
The Special Committee will issue an
end of mission media statement, and later submit a full report** on its
mission, and other activities, to the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.
The Committee’s members will not be
holding consultations with the Israeli authorities, and will not be able to
access the Occupied Palestinian Territory, as the Government of Israel
maintains its practice of non-cooperation with the Committee.
ENDS
The United Nations Special
Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the
Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories was established
by the UN General Assembly in December 1968 to examine the human rights situation
in the occupied Syrian Golan, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and the
Gaza Strip.
The Special Committee is composed
of three Member States: Malaysia, Senegal and Sri Lanka. This year the Member
States are represented by H.E. Mr. Syed Mohamad Hasrin Tengku Hussin, Permanent
Representative Designate of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York, H.E.Mr. Cheikh Niang, Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations in
New York, and H.E. Mr. Amrith Rohan Perera, Permanent Representative of Sri
Lanka to the United Nations in New York (Chair of the Special Committee).
(*) H.E. Mr. Cheikh Niang is unable
to attend the mission this year and will be represented by H.E. Mr. Abdoulaye
Barro, Deputy Permanent Representative of Senegal to the United Nations in New
York; and H.E. Mr. Amrith Rohan Perera is unable to attend the mission this
year and will be represented by H.E. Mr. Satya Rodrigo, Deputy Permanent
Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York.
UN Human Rights, Country Pages –
Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
For more information and media
requests, please contact Nathalie Migeotte (+41 22 917 9877 /
nmigeotte@ohchr.org) or Abigail Eshel (+41 22 917 4148 / aeshel@ohchr.org)
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