Qatar has praised the objective and positive attitudes of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) towards the negative repercussions and human rights violations resulting from the unjust siege and unilateral measures that the country has been subject to since June last year.

This came during a speech by the Permanent Representative of Qatar to the United Nations Office in Geneva, ambassador HE Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, at the 28th special session of the Human Rights Council to discuss the updated statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

“Qatar hopes that the Office of the High Commissioner and the Human Rights Council, through their respective mechanisms, especially special procedures, would continue to pay attention to this issue and to take serious and effective measures to end these violations, hold those responsible accountable and compensate those affected in a just and equitable manner,” he was quoted as saying by Gulf Times.

“Qatar wants to know what further steps the OHCHR could take on the grave violations that had been committed for more than one year, on basis of the findings of the report of the technical mission of the Office which visited the country in November,” he said.

Qatar condemned the continuing violations and crimes committed by the Israeli entity against the Palestinian people and its policies of Judaisation and settlement in flagrant violation of international law, according to Qatar Tribune.

On the Syrian issue, he said the Syrian regime and its allies bear the responsibility for the grave violations and crimes committed against the Syrian people, who had to defend themselves against the regime’s violence and campaign of killing.