UN Member States recognized Belarus's leadership in the fight against human trafficking

May 13, Minsk /Natalia Verbitskaya - BELTA/. UN member states have recognized Belarus's leadership in combating human trafficking. This was announced today at a briefing by the head of the information department - press secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus, Andrei Savinykh, commenting on the discussion of the national report on the human rights situation in Belarus, which was presented on May 12 as part of a session of the UN Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review of Human Rights, BELTA correspondent reports. The Belarusian delegation at the session was headed by the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Mikhail Khvostov. The national report comprehensively reflects the country's policy in the field of human rights protection, the MFA representative emphasized. This concerns civil, political, social, economic, and cultural human rights. The discussion that followed the report demonstrated a high interest in Belarus's experience in protecting human rights. "Participants in the discussion positively assessed the achievements in the field of child rights protection, support for socially vulnerable groups of the population, education, and healthcare," Andrei Savinykh noted. "UN member states recognized Belarus's leadership in combating human trafficking and called on our country to share its positive experience in this area." -0-