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STORY: GENEVA / HRC SYRIA VOTE
TRT: 01:07
SOURCE: UNTV CH
RESTRICTION: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS
DATELINE: 05 MARCH 2018, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
1. Exterior, United Nations Headquarters
2. Wide shot, Human Rights Council
3. Various shots, delegates voting
The Human Rights Council today (05 Mar) in Geneva concluded its urgent debate on the situation in Eastern Ghouta by adopting a resolution in which it requested the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, upon renewal of its mandate, to urgently conduct a comprehensive and independent inquiry into the recent events in Eastern Ghouta, and to provide an update followed by an interactive dialogue on the situation to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-eighth session.
In the resolution, adopted by a vote of 29 in favour, 4 against and 14 abstentions, as orally revised, the Council welcomed the Security Council Resolution 2401 (2018) which had demanded that all parties to the conflict cease hostilities without delay for at least 30 consecutive days to allow safe, unimpeded, and sustained delivery of humanitarian assistance and medical evacuations of the critically sick and wounded.
The Council also demanded that all parties, particularly the Syrian authorities allow safe, unimpeded and sustained access by the United Nations, their implementing partners, and humanitarian operators to all people in need, including immediate access for aid deliveries and medical evacuations to and from Eastern Ghouta, and protection of medical and other humanitarian personnel, facilities and transport.
The Human Rights Council today in Geneva accepted a resolution (L1) on the deteriorating situation of human rights in eastern Ghouta, Syria. 29 delegates voted to accept the resolution, 4 voted against and there were 14 abstentions.
