4 UN officials to visit ME

Published September 8, 2006

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 7: Four human rights experts will visit Israel and Lebanon next week to collect facts about abuses during the recent conflict in the region, a UN spokesman said on Thursday.

“The independent human rights experts will gather first-hand information, establish facts and conduct an impartial legal analysis of the persistent allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law during the recent conflict in order to make specific recommendations to the concerned authorities”, a UN spokesman said.

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