36 nations, including Europeans, rap Saudi Arabia for 1st time at UN rights body
Tehran (KNA) - As many as 36 countries, including all 28 members of the European Union, have taken Saudi Arabia to task for the first time at the United Nations Human Rights Council over Riyadh’s glaring rights violations.
The group of countries expressed concern about Riyadh's rights records in a statement issued on Thursday and read out by Iceland.
"It is a success for Europe to be united on this," an envoy of an EU country told Reuters.
The United States, which considers Saudi Arabia to be one of its allies in the Middle East and maintains strong economic and military cooperation with Riyadh, however, opted out of signing the statement.
Source: PressTV