AFP> Iran, EU end latest round of rights talks with "no concrete results"
TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - Talks between Iran and the European Union on human rights have concluded their latest round with "no concrete results" but have nevertheless been classed as "constructive", European Union diplomats said Wednesday.
"Before the talks, we passed a list of specific cases and issues that we wanted resolved. So in terms of concrete results at this point, there is nothing," said a European diplomat close to the discussions.
"We have also yet to set a fixed date or venue for the next round of discussions. However, in general terms, the talks have been useful and the atmosphere has been good and constructive," said another diplomat.
He added that "engaging Iran on human rights is a long process". No further details, notably those on specific cases raised, were immediately available. The embassy of Ireland, the current holder of the EU presidency, said it hoped to release a statement on the talks on Thursday.
An Iranian judiciary official also classed the talks as "positive", but warned the EU against trying to lecture the Islamic republic. "We do not accept liberal and secular lectures on human rights," said Mohammad Javad Laridjani, a deputy head of the hardline-run judiciary charged with international affairs.
He told the state news agency IRNA that the EU delegation had notably raised the issue of ill-treatment of detainees, but he hit back by asserting "this is not something that is just applicable to Iran."
And while he said the EU team had raised the cases of certain political prisoners, he added that such a class of detainees did not exist here. The discussions here on Monday and Tuesday were the fourth round of an EU effort, started in December 2002, to engage Tehran's clerical rulers on human rights.
Ahead of this week's talks, the pressure group Human Rights Watch issued a pointed message to Brussels, calling on the EU to set concrete benchmarks to end abuses.
In its latest report on Iran, the group documented cases it said showed how political detainees had been tortured in the presence of judges, held for weeks in solitary confinement, and denied basic due process rights.
"Before the talks, we passed a list of specific cases and issues that we wanted resolved. So in terms of concrete results at this point, there is nothing," said a European diplomat close to the discussions.
"We have also yet to set a fixed date or venue for the next round of discussions. However, in general terms, the talks have been useful and the atmosphere has been good and constructive," said another diplomat.
He added that "engaging Iran on human rights is a long process". No further details, notably those on specific cases raised, were immediately available. The embassy of Ireland, the current holder of the EU presidency, said it hoped to release a statement on the talks on Thursday.
An Iranian judiciary official also classed the talks as "positive", but warned the EU against trying to lecture the Islamic republic. "We do not accept liberal and secular lectures on human rights," said Mohammad Javad Laridjani, a deputy head of the hardline-run judiciary charged with international affairs.
He told the state news agency IRNA that the EU delegation had notably raised the issue of ill-treatment of detainees, but he hit back by asserting "this is not something that is just applicable to Iran."
And while he said the EU team had raised the cases of certain political prisoners, he added that such a class of detainees did not exist here. The discussions here on Monday and Tuesday were the fourth round of an EU effort, started in December 2002, to engage Tehran's clerical rulers on human rights.
Ahead of this week's talks, the pressure group Human Rights Watch issued a pointed message to Brussels, calling on the EU to set concrete benchmarks to end abuses.
In its latest report on Iran, the group documented cases it said showed how political detainees had been tortured in the presence of judges, held for weeks in solitary confinement, and denied basic due process rights.
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