UN Rights Chair Defends UN Watch from Egyptian Interruptions

www.unwatch.org On June 16, 2008, the UN Human Rights Council debated its Agenda Item 7: "Human rights situation in Palestine & other occupied Arab territories." UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer refuted the arguments by Egypt and Algeria to the effect that asymmetry justified a one-sided mandate that grants impunity to Palestinian terror. Egypt's interruptions stifled by UNHRC President Doru Costea, who defended UN Watch's right to speak.