WikiLeaks cables implicate UK & Saudi Arabia in secret deal to secure UNHRC seats
Two years after the controversial appointment of Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s leading human rights offenders, to the UN human rights council, Wikileaks cables have revealed a “secret deal” suggesting that the British government was a key player behind Riyadh’s nomination.
Some of the 61,000 files from the Saudi Foreign Ministry, dated January and February 2013, translated by both UN Watch and newspaper, The Australian, reveal that the two countries reached a secret deal to ensure that they would both be elected to the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in 2013, despite Saudi Arabia’s horrific human rights record.
There many additional #Saudi #UNHRC vote-swapping / “payment” schemes detailed in WikiLeaks Saudi-cables https://wikileaks.org/saudi-cables/
