Pakistan's Permanent Representative in the United Nations Masood Khan has said that process to replace the United Nations Human Rights Commission with Human Rights Council is moving ahead in the positive direction.
During the UN summit last year it was felt that the UNHRC was not performing up to the satisfaction of majority UN member countries, particularly the developing countries.
He said the developed countries were of the opinion that the countries involved in human rights violations were also the member of the forum while the developing nations were complaining about double standard by the big powers in the area of human rights.
The developing countries have also complained that they were being victimised by big powers over political differences, he said.
So it was decided by the heads of states during the UN summit that a council should replace the commission with a reformed structure.
To a question, he said, the United States has some objections over the proposed election process for the determination of council members.
According to the proposed mechanism the members would be elected through simple or absolute majority mechanism while the US was stressing the need for adoption of two-third majority method in this regard, he said.
The US was also of the opinion that the states having UN sanctions should not be allowed to become member of the council, Masood said.
He said being a representative of 57 OIC member states, Pakistan was playing a significant role for the redressal of human rights conditions world across.
He said Pakistan was making efforts to have a confrontation free world order wherein the human rights of every individual are delivered.
"We are also trying to convince the international community that Muslim states should not be targeted on the plea of human rights violations", he said adding the international community should stress on poverty alleviation and promotion of education to have a world with better human rights conditions.
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