HE Al-Nasser Meets Chairman of Qatar National Human Rights Committee

New York, September 08 (QNA) - HE the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser conferred here with HE the Chairman of Qatar National Human Rights Committee Dr Ali bin Smaikh Al-Marry, who is currently visiting the United Nations leading a delegation of International Conference for Protection of Journalists in Dangerous Situations that was held in Doha during the period from 22-23 January 2012. The meeting discussed means to find a mechanism to enforce the recommendations of protection of journalists' conference. Al-Nasser was briefed on the recommendations that will be put in front of the UN General Assembly to adopt them and be referred to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Meanwhile, the delegation of International Conference for Protection of Journalists in Dangerous Situations held a meeting chaired by Dr Al-Marry in which they discussed the program of their current visit. The delegation also held a press conference at the UN General Assembly during which they addressed the Doha conference and its recommendations. It is worth mentioning that the recommendations include development of new tools to bind all states to acknowledge and accept a standing obligation to provide particular safeguards and protection for journalists beyond the provisions of UN Security Council resolution reminding states of their obligations to give journalists protection in peacetime as in war. They also include adoption of ambitious reforms to its mechanisms and procedures such as through regional security organizations, expanding the mandates of Special Rapporteurs and concerned UN bodies, organizing emergency alerts and missions, considering intrusive inspections and mandatory sanctions developing or renewing existing systems, developing further monitoring and peer review process and work towards an ultimate goal setting up an international treaty so that countries can collectively adopt a set of radical new measures to afford credible protection to journalists. (QNA)