Kuwait calls for bringing those charged with genocide to justice

NEW YORK, Dec 11 (KUNA) -- Kuwait called for bringing to justice all those who committed massacres and crimes against humanity.
The remarks were made by Kuwait's Permanent Representative at the United Nations Ambassador Mansour Al-Otaibi, during the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)'s session on the council's role in preventing massacres and genocide late Monday.
Al-Otaibi noted that UNSC must exert further efforts to prevent the breakout of conflicts and avoid these massacres.
Although it had been 70 years since approving the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world is still suffering growing conflicts that kill more and more people, he said.
The ambassador meanwhile spoke of mass killings and ethnic cleansing that occurred in the last century including that in Cambodia, Rwanda and former Yugoslavia. He also mentioned the recent massacres against the Rohingya Muslims and the Yazidis.
It is the international community's responsibility to cooperate with global organizations and NGOs to prevent the occurrence of such crimes. The UNSC must closely monitor early signs of a possible conflict and work on resolving the situation with diplomacy, Al-Otaibi explained.
The Kuwaiti diplomat affirmed his full support for the France/Mexico initiative on veto restraint in atrocity situations and the ACT Code of Conduct which Kuwait had joined. (end) asf.ag