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Куба, Россия и Израиль -осуждены в ООН за...
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...нарушение прав человека. Китай извегала обвинения:
"Cuba, Russia in dock at rights meet, China escapes"
Wed Apr 10, 3:54 PM ET
By Richard Waddington
GENEVA (Reuters) - China escaped censure on Wednesday at the United Nations (news - web sites) human rights body but Russia, Israel and Cuba were back in the dock for alleged abuses.
Unlike in previous years, no country came forward with a resolution critical of Beijing before a deadline passed for presenting motions to the annual meeting of the Human Rights Commission in Geneva.
But Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe recently retained power in a controversial election, was singled out for possible condemnation for the first time in a resolution presented by the European Union (news - web sites).
Other states whose rights records will be put to votes next week include Iraq, Iran, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (news - web sites), which are routinely scrutinised at the six-week session of the U.N.'s top human rights meeting.
China had been widely expected to avoid official criticism in the absence of the United States, which failed to win re-election to the 53-nation Commission in an upset vote in New York last autumn.
In past years, the United States had always sponsored a motion critical of Beijing for its policies towards Tibet and religious minorities, but no other country had been willing to take over the role in the absence of Washington.
Human rights activists lashed out at the European Union in particular for its reluctance to take China to task.
"The EU clearly neither possess the courage or political will to make an objective defence of the Tibetan people's rights," said Tsweang Lhadon of the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy.
But diplomats said that Washington still made its diplomatic weight felt when Latin American states agreed to bring a motion attacking the rights record of the government of Cuban President Fidel Castro (news - web sites).
Washington had brought pressure on the Latin American members, among them Uruguay, Peru and Guatemala, to criticise the Caribbean state after its usual ally, the Czech Republic, announced it would not present any resolution this year.
The resolution "invites Cuba to make similar progress in the field of human rights" to that made in the social rights of its people.
"This is treachery," snapped Ivan Mora, Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. "They are serving the interests of the United States," he told journalists.
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