TASHKENT: Uzbekistan plans to step by step enforce masses of human rights suggestions from a United Nations council, it said on Wednesday, however it made a point of refusing to decriminalise homosexuality calling it inappropriate to its society.
Human rights groups and our bodies automatically criticised the federal government of the mostly Muslim Central Asian country over human rights issues under President Islam Karimov who ran the country from 1989 till his demise in 2016.
The former Soviet republic of 32 million started re-engaging human rights our bodies under the new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, because it sought to determine closer ties with the West and draw in badly needed overseas investment.
Mirziyoyev has overseen the release of a number of prominent Karimov-era political prisoners and ordered hundreds of other folks to be troubled off a blacklist of doable exremists. In a landmark ruling, an Uzbek court docket this month set loose a dissident journalist charged with anti-government propaganda.
But its refusal to budge on gay rights presentations there are limits to the Tashkent authorities's willingness to accommodate Western requirements.
Uzbekistan introduced its third human rights file on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, the first one since the management trade.
"When we went to Geneva to present the report there was not the nervousness that there used to be (before)," Deputy Justice Minister Mahmud Istamov told reporters in Tashkent on Wednesday.
"We went there keeping our heads high this time because of the changes that have occurred over the past one-and-a-half years," he added, relating to Mirziyoyev's presidency.
Another Uzbek professional, director of the National Human Rights Centre Akmal Saidov, said Uzbekistan has won over 200 suggestions on the UN council assembly nearly all of which it will step by step enforce.
Officials said, particularly, that Tashkent used to be taking into consideration becoming a member of the UN conference on torture and would scale back cotton plantations that have lengthy attracted criticism because of the use of compelled labour.
The only advice Uzbekistan has flatly rejected used to be that on LGBT rights.
"This is not on our agenda. We have not accepted this recommendation," Istamov said. "This is not a topical subject for us."
Uzbekistan and its neighbour Turkmenistan are the only ex-Soviet international locations that have saved in position the Communist-era ban on male gay relationships, punishable through prison time.
Human rights groups and our bodies automatically criticised the federal government of the mostly Muslim Central Asian country over human rights issues under President Islam Karimov who ran the country from 1989 till his demise in 2016.
The former Soviet republic of 32 million started re-engaging human rights our bodies under the new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, because it sought to determine closer ties with the West and draw in badly needed overseas investment.
Mirziyoyev has overseen the release of a number of prominent Karimov-era political prisoners and ordered hundreds of other folks to be troubled off a blacklist of doable exremists. In a landmark ruling, an Uzbek court docket this month set loose a dissident journalist charged with anti-government propaganda.
But its refusal to budge on gay rights presentations there are limits to the Tashkent authorities's willingness to accommodate Western requirements.
Uzbekistan introduced its third human rights file on the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this month, the first one since the management trade.
"When we went to Geneva to present the report there was not the nervousness that there used to be (before)," Deputy Justice Minister Mahmud Istamov told reporters in Tashkent on Wednesday.
"We went there keeping our heads high this time because of the changes that have occurred over the past one-and-a-half years," he added, relating to Mirziyoyev's presidency.
Another Uzbek professional, director of the National Human Rights Centre Akmal Saidov, said Uzbekistan has won over 200 suggestions on the UN council assembly nearly all of which it will step by step enforce.
Officials said, particularly, that Tashkent used to be taking into consideration becoming a member of the UN conference on torture and would scale back cotton plantations that have lengthy attracted criticism because of the use of compelled labour.
The only advice Uzbekistan has flatly rejected used to be that on LGBT rights.
"This is not on our agenda. We have not accepted this recommendation," Istamov said. "This is not a topical subject for us."
Uzbekistan and its neighbour Turkmenistan are the only ex-Soviet international locations that have saved in position the Communist-era ban on male gay relationships, punishable through prison time.
Anything you want - except gay rights, Uzbekistan tells UN
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