The necrosis of human rights – Morocco, a state that occupies, tortures, rapes and murders, takes over the presidency of the United Nations Human Rights Council
Yesterday, 10 January, the United Nations Human Rights Council elected Ambassador Omar Zniber, Permanent Representative of Morocco to the United Nations Office at Geneva, to serve as its President for 2024.
As Morocco is a state that ignores all the decisions, recommendations and opinions of the various mechanisms of the Human Rights Council, it is incomprehensible how it can even be considered as a candidate for election.
The tremendous violation and mockery of human rights is so great that Ambassador Zniber was obviously elected in a SECRET VOTE process in which all 47 members of the Geneva-based human rights body voted to appoint its president for 2024 – the 18th annual cycle of the Council.
This vote is so shameful that it’s only natural that it was carried out in secret.
“It is an honour for the Kingdom of Morocco and for me personally to have been elected as head of this august Council for its 18th cycle – a position that belongs to Africa,” Ambassador Zniber told the Council after being elected.
This is yet another travesty of ethics and morals. He has the audacity to talk about Africa when Morocco is responsible not only for occupying an African country, Western Sahara, for murdering, raping, torturing and bombing its population, but also for murdering African migrants. All this is documented at the United Nations.
The representative of the human rights abusers continued with despicable and nauseating rhetoric that is too repugnant to even talk about.
We have just one question to ask the 30 countries, out of 47, that voted in secret in favour of Morocco’s representative: how much money did they receive? How much does it take to sell out your integrity?
How can you vote for a country that is at war and bombing civilians with drones?
The results of the secret ballot were as follows:
Ambassador Zniber (Morocco) 30 VOTES
Ambassador Nkosi (South Africa) 17 VOTES
Ambassador Zniber, whose presidency takes effect immediately, joins Ambassador Febrian Ruddyard of Indonesia, Ambassador Darius Staniulis of Lithuania, Ambassador Marcelo Eliseo Scappini Ricciard of Paraguay and Ambassador Heidi Schroderus-Fox of Finland, who were elected on 8 December 2023 as vice-presidents of the Council, to sit on the Council Bureau for the current year.
One wonders if the fact that South Africa has brought a case against Israel’s genocide in Palestine before the International Court of Justice isn’t the determining factor for countries to vote for Morocco instead of South Africa.
Unfortunately, given that the vote is secret, it is not possible to better analyse the reasons behind this incomprehensible mockery of human rights.
With this, it is clear that in 2025 it is very likely that a Zionist diplomat will be elected to the post. From this moment on, anything is possible.
Zniber’s brief CV
Omar Zniber has been Morocco’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva since 2018. Before his appointment to Geneva, Zniber had been Morocco’s Ambassador to Germany since January 2012. Before that, he was Morocco’s Ambassador to Slovenia, with residence in Vienna, since January 2004; Ambassador to Slovakia, with residence in Vienna, since August 2003; and Ambassador to Austria, since April 2003. He was accredited as Permanent Representative of Morocco to international organisations in Vienna in June 2003.
Zniber was a counsellor at the Permanent Mission of Morocco to the United Nations Office at Geneva from 1989 to 1996. He also worked at the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation as Head of the United Nations Division from 1996 to 1999 and as Director of the United Nations and International Organisations Directorate from 1999 to 2003. Mr Zniber holds a doctorate in Public International Law from the Université Paris II Panthéon Assas, France (1986).
