Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Jeenbek Kulubaev spoke at the high-level segment of the 52nd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic reported.
Jeenbek Kulubaev noted that Kyrgyzstan has already been a member of the Council twice and, based on previous experience, intends to continue to make its feasible contribution to the work of the UN body, in particular in such areas as: ensuring the rule of law and democracy, promoting the rights of women and children, migrant workers and persons with disabilities, as well as dialogue to advance the fight against discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance.
Addressing the participants, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic informed about the country’s achievements in the field of human rights, including the inventory of legislation, humanization of criminal legislation, implementation of medium-term programs in such priority areas as the protection of families and children, gender equality, and combating corruption.
Jeenbek Kulubaev emphasized that Kyrgyzstan was committed to further formation of a strong democratic form of government, building a rule of law, bringing national legislation in line with applicable international law, reforming the judicial and law enforcement system, and improving the electoral process.
The head of the country’s foreign ministry noted that in light of the severe consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the global economy, external debt of developing countries has become one of the most key problems and expressed the opinion that the external debts of developing countries were growing, depriving them of the opportunity to ensure development through external borrowing thereby impeding the full development of human rights.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs voiced the call of the President Sadyr Japarov to international development partners to step up work on the exchange of the country’s external debt for projects in the field of environmental protection.
