Geneva/Information Office/ 28 February 2017/ The State of Qatar underlined that the promotion and protection of human right is the fundamental pillar for achieving stability, development and well-being of individuals and communities.

Addressing the annual high-level panel discussion on human rights mainstreaming in the course of the 34th session of the Human Rights Council, currently in session in Geneva, HE Qatar's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva Ali Khalifa Al Mansouri said that the efforts made by the State of Qatar in the framework of international cooperation have always focused on ending conflicts through fair and honest mediations between the parties in order to find just and durable solutions to problems and disputes.
He highlighted Qatar's ongoing efforts to promote the achievement of peace through the implementation of development and community programs and the provision of humanitarian aid which consolidate the peace process and support continuity.
HE Al Mansouri stressed the importance of the annual high-level panel discussion in light of the current serious and complex challenges which many parts in the world have been witnessing due to the spread of armed conflicts and their worsening direct impact on the human rights situation.
He noted that the basic pillars of the work of the United Nations system are integral and complementary, for instance, the promotion and protection of human rights cannot be achieved without security and stability, meanwhile, achieving development cannot be accomplished in situations of conflicts and human rights violations. He underlined that the international cooperation should remain a major concern for the Human Rights Council for its importance in ending conflicts.
HE Al Mansouri pointed out to the agreement signed recently between the State of Qatar, the United Nations and Sudan Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Commission according to which one thousand and four hundred fighters in Darfur will be reintegrate as part of the second phase. One thousand and six hundred fighters were reintegrating in the first phase.
He said that Qatar is financing the demobilization and reintegration more than 10 thousand former fighters in Darfur in the course of the reintegration project to achieve community stability in the framework of the Doha Document for peace process in Darfur, signed in Doha in July 2011.
Concluding, HE Qatar's Permanent Representative to the UN Office in Geneva underlined that the Human Rights Council should pay greater attention to the relation between building peace, human rights and the international cooperation, and to working through its various mechanisms to attract the thoughts and ideas that would strengthen the role of the Council in this regard.