‘We repudiate all insults, all offenses, all falsifications, all aggressions,’ Co-President Murillo said.

On Thursday, Nicaragua announced its withdrawal from the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR) in rejection of falsehoods and slander against it.

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This decision came after the government of President Daniel Ortega reviewed the latest report from the Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua, which called for the Central American country to be brought before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for stripping 153 right-wing activists of their nationality and expelling them to Guatemala as stateless persons in September 2024.

“Nicaragua conveys its sovereign and irrevocable decision to withdraw from the Human Rights Council and from all activities related to this Council and all its satellite mechanisms,” said Nicaraguan Co-President Rosario Murillo.

The decision to withdraw was formalized through a letter addressed to the OHCHR president, Ambassador Jürg Lauber, and signed by Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Jaentschke.

“We repudiate all insults, all offenses, all falsifications, all aggressions—everything that constitutes the colonialist policies guiding the actions of organizations that should serve the common good,” the Nicaraguan co-president said.

“The Human Rights Council violates its own regulations contained in the resolution adopted on March 15, 2006, which established the principles of objectivity, impartiality, and non-selectivity in the examination of human rights issues, as well as the obligation to eliminate double standards and politicization,” she added.

“As in previous reports, statements, communiques, and updates, this is further evidence of the double standards and politicization of each of these mechanisms, which routinely instrumentalize human rights as a pretext for interference in the internal affairs of States and for disrespecting national sovereignty,” Murillo pointed out.

“These mechanisms are not only true political tools and platforms used to discredit our government’s work in consolidating peace and security, but they also serve as obstacles to the economic and social development of the Nicaraguan people and aim to hinder progress in health, education, and other areas,” she denounced.

In the letter sent to the OHCHR president, Nicaragua accused the Group of Experts, the Office of the High Commissioner, and the UN Human Rights Council of having become “a sounding board for those who have attacked peace and stability and are responsible for multiple murders, kidnappings, violations, atrocities, and abuses against the Nicaraguan people, while also causing destruction and incalculable damage to the national economy.”

“And these are the same ones who today celebrate and promote the imposition of unilateral coercive measures that the UN General Assembly has declared illegal for violating international law. For Nicaragua, these disrespectful mechanisms have lost their nature and essence. We do not recognize them, nor do we see ourselves as part of or complicit in violations against sovereignty, the equality of States, and the dignity of peoples,” it emphasized.

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Source: EFE

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