The Egyptian delegation participating in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) that will take place on Tuesday at the United Nations Security Council arrived on Sunday at Geneva.
“We finished the special arrangements for reviewing the governmental report on human rights situation in Egypt, which is an ordinary procedure that all countries carry out,” the Deputy Foreign Minister for International Organizations Affairs Hesham Badr, who is the head of the technical committee tasked with drafting the report, told Al-Masry Al-Youm before heading to Geneva.
The UPR session will last for almost three and half hours to review the human rights situation in Egypt, Badr said expecting comments based on false or politicized information. However, they will be corrected and strongly responded to, he added.
In related news, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi received on Sunday a delegation from the 30 June fact-finding committee, headed by Fouad Abdel Moneim Riyad
Alaa Youssef, presidential spokesperson, said Sisi received the section on Sinai within the committee’s fact-finding report, which will be finalized before 21 November.
Iskandar Ghattas, vice-chief of the committee, said the report was not submitted to the presidency and that some issues that should have been submitted this week were postponed. On the other hand, Riyad and Omar Marwan, the committee’s spokesperson, refused to respond to journalists’ questions.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
