Iraq welcomes the adoption by UNHR of draft resolution to address religious hatred

Baghdad-INA

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomed the adoption by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a draft resolution "Addressing religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility, or violence."

The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The draft resolution came after Iraq's demand not to repeat the phenomenon of burning and desecration of the Holy Qur'an, and the message of the supreme religious authority, His Eminence, Sayyid Ali al-Sistani, which he addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, had an important and positive role." In combating this extremist ideology that leads to insulting the sanctities and their symbols and burning the heavenly books, including the Holy Qur’an, and calling on the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, to hold an emergency session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to discuss the most important measures regarding the insult directed at the Holy Qur’an,” pointing out, “the Council Human rights The aforementioned decision was adopted in response to a request by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation group to discuss the issue of repeated desecration of the Holy Qur’an in some European countries.

Indicating that, "The Iraqi government has expressed its strong condemnation and denunciation of the repeated phenomenon of burning and desecration of the Holy Qur'an, and stressed that these actions are inconsistent with the values ​​of tolerance, acceptance of the other, peaceful coexistence, and democratic values, and represent incitement to hatred and racism, and impede international efforts aimed at spreading the values ​​of tolerance and moderation." Rejecting extremism and terrorism, and undermining mutual respect between peoples and countries.
The ministry affirmed Iraq's call to "the Human Rights Council, at the session held on Tuesday in Geneva, to assume its legal and moral responsibilities by setting up legal frameworks to criminalize these acts and punish the perpetrators, regardless of the place of their occurrence or the identity of the perpetrators."