UAE denies false Sudan allegations at UN Human Rights Council

The United Arab Emirates has affirmed that it is exercising its right to respond to baseless and unfounded allegations made earlier today by a party to the conflict in Sudan whose hands are stained with the blood of its own people.

Shahd Matar, Deputy Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations and other international organizations in Geneva, stated during the country’s participation in the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, currently convened in Geneva: “This is merely the latest failed attempt to lecture this chamber on the rule of law, while the very party in question stands accused of committing war crimes against its own people and has systematically, time and again, undermined every sincere regional and international effort to reach a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. With calculated indifference to the suffering of the Sudanese people, it has committed documented violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, systematically obstructed humanitarian access, attacked civilian infrastructure, and carried out summary executions and acts of sexual and gender-based violence.”

She added: “The same representative accusing my country has failed to ensure impartial investigations or deliver any genuine accountability, not to mention the credible links to extremism associated with this party to the conflict — a matter of grave concern to my delegation and to the international community as a whole.”