UAE human rights watch body participates in Arab monitors' mission in Syria

posted on 28/12/2011: 37 views

Cairo-based Arab Organisation for Human Rights has selected Mohammed Salim Al Ka'abi, Deputy Chairman of the UAE Human Rights Association (HRA), as member of the Arab League observers' mission tasked with assessing the situation in Syria.

The monitors are in Syria under a protocol reached between the Arab League and the Syrian government to end violence the country has been witnessing since the eruption in March of protests against the regime of president Bashar Al Assad.

Mohammed Hussein Al Hammadi, HRA Secretary General, said the selection of the UAE human rights watch body within the Arab League monitors stems out of the pan-Arab organisation's confidence in the HRA's impartial programmes for preventing abuses against any human being.

He lauded the move as a 'good step' to calm down the situation and to respect human rights.

The UAE is engaging in the mission as part of the joint mission of the GCC member states in line with an understanding agreed by the GCC foreign ministers in their recent meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. - Emirates News Agency, WAM

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