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During a state inspection of the Korean delegation to the United Nations, the opposition and opposition parties criticized with one voice for Korea’s failure to win the election of the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The UN delegation bowed its head.
Lee Yong-joo is a reporter in New York.
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Elect members of the UN Human Rights Council.
It was held by secret ballot, and diplomats from all countries were busy taking photos at the rare sight of collecting envelopes, and Ambassador Hwang Jun-guk of the Korean delegation was no exception.
As a result of the vote, Korea fell.
The Asia-Pacific region was in fourth place, but came in fifth.
Bangladesh came out on top, followed by the Maldives, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan.
[차바 쾨뢰시 / 유엔총회 의장]
“The 14 countries elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council will begin their three-year term from January 1, 2023.”
There was criticism in the UN representative’s state audit.
Far from analyzing the case, it emerged from a poor job report that contained no relevant information at all.
[이명수 국민의힘 의원]
“If you don’t ask a question, you don’t answer it, if you ask a question, you answer it… Look at it from the people’s point of view.”
The representative pointed out that the problem was that, of the 14 elections for international organizations held this year, 10 included all diplomatic missions being used, which was twice as many as last year.
In order to get the vote, they have to promise to push each other with other countries, but they didn’t get enough votes because there were more elections than their competitors.
However, he could not avoid being criticized for having prepared poorly in advance.
[김경협 더불어민주당 의원]
“I explained earlier that the direction of our diplomacy is to move on to international organizations and continue to increase the opportunities, but then (elections to run for) continue to increase in the future.
Ambassador Hwang Jun-guk bowed his head.
[황준국 대사 / 유엔대표부]
“We did our best, but we are very sorry for the disappointing result.”
While the ruling party, which said it was neglecting human rights in North Korea, and the opposition, which said multilateral diplomacy had weakened after the inauguration of the Yun Seok-yeol administration, were divided, the mission said the United Nations would evaluate properly. his abilities before running for election in the future.
This is Lee Yong-joo from MBC News from New York.
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