Using only Prensa Latina, González alluded to the political bias and disturbing interest of this mechanism, which he said cannot be accepted because it violates the UN Charter itself.
Last week, the aforementioned body passed a resolution setting up a panel of three experts to investigate possible human rights violations in the Central American country since April 2018.
The document was adopted with 20 votes in favour, seven against and 20 abstentions.
In this vein, the also law professor at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN-Managua) claimed that the aforementioned council had little legitimacy in dealing with the human rights agenda.
“When we speak of legitimacy, we speak of something systemic, that is, countries organize themselves in such a way that international relations are rational and consensual, but above all that the UN experts guarantee the application of the principles to all cities, not to a few,” he explained.
González described this agenda as colonialist, adding that it was a discrediting strategy against leftist governments in the region.
“When they appoint electoral, human rights or other monitoring commissions, they are colonialist strategies to maintain a status quo based on Northern hegemony,” he said.
For the analyst, there is one conflicting aspect to this matter, and that is that a few days ago, Nicaragua was appointed vice president of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization for its achievements in food sovereignty in the region.
“Apparently, ensuring life, food sovereignty, is not a human right for the United Nations. Therefore, the agenda is not to guarantee these rights in a holistic way, but rather seeks to enforce their supremacy,” he commented.
The university professor referred to the events in the Central American country in 2018 and how the Sandinista government invited two commissions to monitor the ongoing conflict.
“There was a concrete fact then, but now we are at peace, so there is no reason to let this delegation in, to accept it would be against our own political constitution,” he concluded.
Last Thursday, the government of President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo rejected every UN Human Rights Council resolution against Managua for lack of a political basis.
The Nicaraguan executive called for these resolutions not to focus on or be based on disinformation and hate campaigns in the media.
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