This was voiced by Third Secretary of Kuwait’s Permanent Delegation to the UN Dekheil Al-Khureinj before the UN Legal Commission late Wednesday.
Kuwait stresses the respect of the UN Charter and international law as two key pillars for facing challenges and threats haunting the international community, he said.
It also calls for protecting human rights and individual freedoms, self-determination, and equity for the sake of achieving peace, security, and economic development, he added.
Internationally, Al-Khureinj said his country is keen on abiding by international principles, respect of international laws and agreements by means of maintaining world security and peace, non-interference into other countries’ internal affairs or legal and constitutional systems, non-use of force or threat to use force, abstention from doing anything that runs counter to the UN Charter and principles, and commitment to peacefully settling disputes that may arise among countries.
Continuing violations of international laws undermines the political will in the field of law-abidance, he said. In this context, he pointed to a recent Goldstone report on Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity during its recent war on the Gaza Strip in violation of international humanitarian and human rights laws and Geneva conventions.
He urged more efforts to be exerted and all means to be used in order to bring everyone to respect the rule of law as a way for consolidating justice and achieving international peace and security.
Kuwait is keen on the sound application of the rule of law principle in order to help the UN live up to its responsibility, find solutions to possible disputes between the international law and national legislation, beef up international mechanisms for dispute-settlement, suggest coordinative solutions to fend off contradiction between international and regional agreements, determine congenial means to promote legal awareness, and put international accords in place, he noted.
Locally, Kuwait, he maintained, enjoys a constitutional democratic system that stipulates that the nation is the source of legislative, executive and judicial authorities, ensures the rights and duties of everybody, guarantees the respect of the rule of law in the principle of separation, but cooperation, among authorities and allows the freedom of forming societies and unions on national bases and peaceful means as per relevant laws.
In this context, he said the recent parliamentary polls in Kuwait had produced an impressive quantum shift in the country’s parliamentary life as four Kuwaiti women, for the very first time, won seats at parliament, which would surely shore up democracy and equality.