Press Statement of DPRK Permanent Mission
to UN Office and International Organizations

in Geneva

Pyongyang, March 24 (KCNA) -- The DPRK permanent mission to the UN
Office and International Organizations in Geneva issued the following press
statement on March 24:
Recently, the EU submitted again the "resolution" slandering the DPRK's
genuine policy of protecting and promoting human rights and its actual
situation to the 55th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.
The submitting of the anti- DPRK "resolution", which has become an
inveterate evil practice of the EU, is nothing but a clearly politically-motivated
plot utterly contrary to the purpose and principle of the UN Charter which
stipulates respect for sovereignty and non-interference in other's internal
affairs and to the efforts of the UN member states to protect and promote
human rights through dialogue and cooperation.
It is the core of the "resolution" of the EU to insist on the infringement upon
sovereignty under the signboard of "protecting human rights".
The DPRK permanent mission to the UN Office and International
Organizations in Geneva brands the recent "resolution" submitting of the EU
as a grave political provocation pursuant to the U.S. hostile policy toward the
DPRK to bring down its social system, and vehemently denounces and
rejects it.
Today the fair international community is sneering at the shamelessness of
the EU countries, in which all sorts of human rights abuses are rampant as
malignant cancer, as they are styling themselves the "human rights founders"
and "human rights model" and trying to teach others.
Many member states of the UN Human Rights Council maintain their stand
that the "human rights resolutions" against specific countries are nothing but
politicized documents which are not recognized by relevant countries.

It is the European countries where typical human rights abuses such as racial
discrimination, maltreatment of immigrants, flesh traffic, police violence and
sexual abuse are rampant and children, disabled persons and old people who
deserve social protection are forsaken as victims of all social evils.
The EU is the very one that brought about the worst humanitarian crisis by
destroying the stability and creating discord among the Middle East and
African countries and is taking a cold attitude being unrelated to innocent
refugees whether they drown in the Mediterranean Sea to death or suffer from
coldness and diseases in refugee camps.
The EU is besmirching the sacred UN human rights arena by fabricating
someone's non-existing "human rights issue" though it could not properly
settle even its existing and urgent human rights abuses. This is not because it
is truly interested in protecting and promoting human rights.
It is the main purpose of the "improvement of human rights" touted by the EU
to justify its interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states under the
pretext of "human rights and democracy", distorting the universal definition of
human rights and preaching its "values".
No one or no international law did not give the EU an authority to interfere in
internal affairs of independent sovereign states and impose its principle on
them.
The "strategic independence" and "independence" advocated by Europe will
only highlight the true nature of the EU which is strategically subordinated to
the U.S. policy of hegemony.
The protection of human rights and the defence of sovereignty are
inseparably related.
The DPRK regarding the people-first principle as its state policy will as ever
fulfill its responsibility and role to defend the sovereign right of the state and
protect and promote the human rights of the people. -0-