On Thursday, the United Nations rejected the “unacceptable” sanctions imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump on an independent international rapporteur, because of its criticism of Israel, and called for its abolition.
“The measures taken against Francesca Albaniz, a certain independent expert by the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territories, said” a dangerous precedent. “
He added that while member states have the right to differ with the reports of independent experts, stressing the treatment of such differences within the framework of the United Nations.
“Using unilateral sanctions against the special rapporteur or any other United Nations expert or official is unacceptable,” reporters told reporters on his usual journalist.
He emphasized that the Italian human rights human rights was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva and that the Secretary -General Guterres has no power to work.
Dujarric called for a distinction between the legitimate political criticism of the Israeli government and the anti -Semitism.
Last Wednesday, the Trump administration imposed sanctions on Albanez, the independent of the United Nations in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused her of bias and anti -Semitism, claiming that Albaniz contacted the International Criminal Court to encourage investigations or arrest American or Israeli citizens without informing the two countries.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement that this made her “unsuitable” for service.
“Albaniz launched an explicit sublimity, and expressed her support for terrorism, and an explicit contempt for the United States, Israel and the West,” the statement said.
