The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emphasized that enhancing and protecting human rights is a strategic option that constitutes the backbone of the State's comprehensive development policy, citing its national efforts to protect human rights and support all regional and international efforts that also achieve that goal, considering the differences of social values and traditions among nations. Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed Al-Aiban, President of Human Rights Commission of Saudi Arabia, who leads his country's delegation to the 25th session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, explained during a discussion today on the final results of the presentation of the Kingdom's case as part of the second round for the comprehensive periodical review that what the Kingdom has achieved in the field of protecting, enhancing and spreading the culture of human rights in the Kingdom doesn't mean the end of the game but, on the contrary, it would constitute a strong incentive and a boost to intensify a strenuous national action to protect what has already been achieved and put the necessary and appropriate mechanism to further consolidate and protect the culture, values and principles of human rights. He confirmed that the success of the mechanism of comprehensive periodical review is dependent on a number of basic factors, most important of which is: objectivity that would contribute to achieving the objectives of the review mechanism and assist the concerned countries to enhance and protect human rights in their respective countries and overcome the challenges facing them, drawing the attention that continuity is considered an important factor for the success of the review. As much as this mechanism continues, chances of reaching the goals and aspirations increase, he said, adding that this requires that all parties provide support and block any ill endeavor to foil it, noting the importance of paying attention to gradualism of implementing the human-rights-related commitments. He noted that among those factors are also taking into consideration to the cultural diversification of the countries as such cultural differences are well known facts and that attempts to impose certain cultures on others as regards human rights cause harm rather than good. So, taking into account the diversification of cultures, investing this diversification for the sake of protecting and enhancing human rights and inserting this concept as part of the globalization of human rights is a must. --More 22:16 LOCAL TIME 19:16 GMT تغريد
