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Iran remained firmly committed to the promotion of human rights, despite the unjust criticism in the report.

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We denounce and condemn the manipulation and distortions of those States that are blatantly and openly violating the United Nations Charter and Security Council resolution 1973 (2011), hoping to impose a regime change in a sovereign State.

The Special Committee had filled many pages of its report with fierce criticism of Israel, but the firing of 19 rockets at Israeli civilians during its mission to Gaza in July had been conveniently excluded — and just denied once more — as had the more than 9,000 rockets launched into southern Israel over the previous decade.

The disrepute in which the current administration had fallen because of the killings, torture and other atrocities perpetrated by the United States of America in centres operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) around the world had been reflected in the recent election; it criticized the Human Rights Council but feared to allow it to examine its own human rights record.

There are good answers to all the familiar deterrence and other justifications for retaining nuclear weapons.

However, the sector has developed at a time of growing scrutiny from the public, improved communications and vociferous opposition groups.

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Discrimination which inhibits the political participation of minorities may manifest itself in, among others: a type of electoral system which negatively affects minority representation; political parties which are adverse to minority issues and minority membership; widespread prejudice among the electorate which punishes parties willing to include minority candidates or voice minority issues; media which are hostile to minority concerns and participation.

It was not a time for excuses and invective, it was a time to talk peace.

The global food, energy and financial crises that exposed the systemic flaws inherent in the functioning of deregulated global markets required Governments to step in to address those crises — and in ways that dealt a blow to the conventional wisdom underpinning the Washington Consensus.

The reporting and advocacy that follow human rights investigations are open to challenge and can readily be impugned where the “facts” themselves were gathered through unreliable methodologies, or by inexperienced, or biased fact-finders.

Just like lead-based paint and asbestos-containing products once represented standards in the industry and have since been replaced by newer, safer products, so has copper plumbing recently come under fire and increased scrutiny--not only for its link to possible water contamination caused by metal leaching into the water, but also for its frequency of premature failure.

It is clear that real dialogue around the negotiating table — and not the tired diatribe that has characterized this forum — is the only path to peace for our two peoples.

With the release of the final report, political actors have become increasingly vocal, with some having called on the President to accept and fully implement the recommendations, and others, some of whom are recommended for prosecution by the Commission, publicly denouncing and rejecting them.

I consider that—even though this perception is not without impact on public opinion in Serbia, in Republika Srpska in Bosnia-Herzegovina where the Tribunal is often presented as “anti Serb”,41 and in Croatia and Kosovo where the decisions of the Tribunal are also often criticised—this perception would not discourage the Tribunal from establishing Information Centres in the Region.