Belgium was courting Saudi Arabia’s favor with vote to put kingdom onto UN Women’s Rights Commission

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“The disclosure risks fuelling a further backlash against the European country, which has been accused of putting concerns about equality to one side in order to ingratiate itself with the oil-rich kingdom.” Accused? It’s obvious. Belgium knows the way the world is heading. They cast their absurd vote to place Saudi Arabia on the UN Women’s Rights Commission to court favor with their masters. They know what is happening in Europe. This was a gesture of submission.

“Belgium made sure Saudi Arabia knew it voted regime onto UN Women’s Rights Commission, according to leaked emails”, by Harriet Agerholm, Independent, May 2, 2017:

Belgium’s foreign ministry wanted Saudi Arabia to know it had voted to elect the kingdom to the UN Commission of Women’s Rights, leaked internal emails have reportedly revealed.

The disclosure risks fuelling a further backlash against the European country, which has been accused of putting concerns about equality to one side in order to ingratiate itself with the oil-rich kingdom.

The election of a nation which bans women from driving and working without a male’s permission to a body whose role it is to promote women’s rights caused an outcry.

It emerged Belgium was one of a handful of EU member states to vote for the conservative nation in a secret ballot.

The leaked documents, seen by Belgian news site 7sur7, also appeared to undermine claims by Belgium’s Prime Minister, Charles Michel, that the ballot came unexpectedly and that the diplomat who voted was forced into a hasty decision without proper consultations with Brussels.

Mr Michel last week claimed that electing the nation to the commission was a mistake, citing the country’s poor record on gender equality.

“If we could do it again and if we would have the chance to discuss it at government level, I of course would have argued that we not approve this,” Mr Michel said.

But the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was informed of the vote at least nine hours before the ballot, according to the leaked documents reported by the news site.

The cabinet sent instructions to the delegation in New York instructing them on how to vote and requesting they inform the various candidates, including Saudi Arabia, of their support, according to the documents.

Deputy leader of the country’s Green party, Benoît Hellings, claimed Belgium’s vote was a tactical move and said the foreign ministry was directly responsible.

“The cabinet of (foreign minister) Didier Reynders gave the green light to a shameless vote, scorning women’s rights, with the aim of getting in the good books of a notoriously no-go country in order to facilitate the election of Belgium to the UN Security Council,” he said in a statement.

“Who is responsible for this decision? The minister of foreign affairs himself.”……

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

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Ari

6 years ago

I wonder does the Belgian government tell this news or is this vote a hushed issue in the local MS media?
Belgian TV news presenter Nathalie Maleux in the picture.

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